Lookout Road - 1 hour, 18 miles I'm going to have to get an odometer. Took my first road ride on the new bike today over lunch. Snaked my way up to Mineral Road, out to 95th, and back around on Lookout Road. Riding alone is kind of tough in terms of pacing. And there's no one to draft behind! Need to find a trainer :) Awfully cool how you can push up a hill and keep pushing down the other side while recovering aerobically; not the same as running. The views from on top the rolling fields on Lookout are amazing. From the Snowy Range in the north down to Pikes Peak in the south, the whole Front Range is gracing the western skyline. Very cool. Lots of white above treeline still which makes for an awesome contrast with the green foothills and flatland fields.
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Magnolia Mountain Bike Ride - 2 hours Cool spot. Heidi at work lives up on Lazy Z on western Magnolia. Just fricken awesome trails all over the woods up there. Dan, Heidi and I left from her house and headed up Lazy Z, across Magnolia and into the National Forest to the north. Lots of cool signle track up there. We did the Red Dot loop and bushwhacked a part of the Blue Dot. Got off trail cutting through the remnants of a clear cut. All was well though as we found a really cool knoll with a view of the Indian Peaks and did some off-trail to find the loop. Heading back was kick ass along a wooded ridge popping out into a meadow above Heidi's house. A speedy single track in the grass with awesome views of the hill sto the south.
New Road Bike Today is Friday May 27 2005. I invested a chunk of cash into a nice road bike this morning. I've been looking at them for a while now, thinking about getting off the weekend warrior path and instead hooking up with some of the more disciplined athletic types at work that take lunch time rides, compete in races, do the Boulder thing. I don't really have a desire to be competitive but I do think that I have a good set of lungs and could get myself in pretty good shape if I did some regular riding. Dan and I at work have been doing a weekly mountain bike ride this spring. Nothing too strenuous but always a nice short workout. We'll be doing one this afternoon up off Magnolia Road. So the bike. It is a store brand deal, Performance Tirreno Razza 3.o. It weighs 20lb1oz, has a carbon fork and all the components are Shimano 105. It was a clearance deal, last year's model and I got it for $800 instead of the $1170 retail price. Certainly not a top of the line mach
Trek Fuel 80
Bought this in 2005 after finally getting sick of trying to find a replacement fork for my old hard tail. http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/2004/archive/fuel80
More day dreaming...
Here's another one. Heading into Crystal Rapid, looking to avoid the big hole on river right.
Latest day dream...
I've been cleaning house on my hard drive and came across pics from a summer '03 Grand Canyon float. Ahhh, to be on the river for 3 weeks again...
