As the outdoor cycling season come to an end here in Colorado, I’ve decided to set some goals for the next year. Looking back at 2014 I realize that I’ve already achieved so much more than I ever imagined. It’s been an incredible year of cycling, one that I will never forget. Before I get into…
If you asked me a year ago, “Hey, Jess, want to participate in a century ride?” I would have said two things: “What the hell is a century ride?” and upon finding out that it’s a 100-mile bike ride, my second remark would have been a no-hesitation-needed, “Hell no.” I didn’t even own a bike…
This past weekend Jessica and I participated in the Elephant Rock, a century (100 mile) ride that started in Castle Rock, Colorado. We’ve spent months training for this event and wanted to make sure that we were able to recorded and collect data from the ride. Monitoring cycling data on a century ride isn’t an…
Jared and I planned to take it easy this past weekend because the Elephant Rock is this Sunday (June 1). Saturday, the plan was to give our bikes a good ol’ fashion rub down. Also, because I fecked up my handlebars from the spill two weekends ago, I had to re-tape my handle bars. No…
We traversed many a great cities on our bike ride on Saturday: we started in Lakewood, took the Platte down to C470, up to Parker, into Denver, then over to Thornton and back down the Platte River. As it usually goes with Jared, we didn’t follow the map and ended up doing 12 more miles…