mullerb's musings

Ugh. Lots of river miles and beer to burn off before this feels good again. Kay beat me into the ground on this one. Well off my mid-summer pace.

Alex and Varda's permit with Evan, Seth, Debbie and Ken with James, Frederick, and our family. 3 rafts, 3 IKs, 4 kayaks, lots of fun. Great weather the whole time.

Took a jant in the early AM with Ed. Counter clockwise around is easy!

A Sunday jaunt wih the kiddos hanging at home. Squeezed the aerobic workout in between rain squalls. Darn pedals are squeeking/clicking on every turn of the crank. Need to get them checked out.

Fun jaunt through the woods along the St Vrain Creek with Dan. Drive up past Jamestown. Tricky if you were to fall along the river bank. Really sandy/rocky heading up to Miller Rock. Found a cool traversing trail to avoid a lot of the gnarly stuff on the way down.

A nice 7.5mph pace up Lee Hill's two climbs, a roaring fast descent the same way down, up Olde Stage half way, then back to COMET. Much better than Monday's jaunt with Heidi as I actually kept up on the hills.

FUN!! We took mountain bikes down to the Qwest Research Park track and had a 45 minute session cruising the loops, banks, drops, and rocky straight aways. Nice change-up to a road ride. Aerobic as all get out.

Just Heidi and I today. She said she would be slow since she had a killer ride Friday and a long mountain run Saturday. Yah, shure. Averaged 21mph and had a killer run on the Diagonal catching up to and passing a moped at 20mph. Tongue wagging, chest huffing, I couldn't keep up with Heidi for the last mile. Argh.

The posse of 4 today. Just off the fast mark of Monday.

What a nice ride! Met Ed Porrit and Kay at 6:15 at Vic's then drove and parked at 75th and Diagonal. Nice mellow ride along fields, ponds, streams, and prairie north to the climb up to the top of the dam and the marina on Carter Lake. Faster return with a gentle slope back to the Boulder Valley most of the way.

This is one of the first loops I did this summer. WIth Kay and Heidi again. Realy nice ramble to the east past Erie. Jay east to 63rd, south to Valmont, east on Valmont to 95th, south to Isabelle, east to ??, north on ??, west on Lookout and around back to Jay. Very cool with lots of flats, gentle ups and downs. We should work on doing this one with a bit more speed.