The Blog of Kwan

Short bike ride today to Wash Park

We also saw riders from The Triple Bypass today

Felt better after seeing The Lookout Mountain ride listed as "difficult"

Road Biking Colorado: The Statewide Guide by Michael Seeberg

Lookout Mountain Goal Ride

My 1st partial Lookout Mountain Ride

iPhone Bike Mount & iMapMyRide on the Bianchi

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Spring forward

We had great weather here in Denver this weekend. Sunny and 65-75 degrees (a dry 65-75). The kids have taken every opportunity to play in the backyard and dig up our gravel walkway.

Yesterday, we took the training wheels off Paola's bike for a bit so she could practice bike riding. She did great and I think that in a couple more sessions, she could be off training wheels for good.

I had flashes of teaching her to drive... and had to re-evaluate my teaching method when she said, "Dad, you're being too hard on me." Yeah, ouch.

Afterwards, we put the training wheels back on and we all rode to Town Center for lunch.

Just the good ol' boys, never meanin no harm....

My first big bicycle accident....

Of course, I mean since I've been cycling as an adult. Justin and I were headed south on the Cherry Creek Bike Trail on Saturday morning around 7:45. Halfway to the Cherry Creek Resevoir, maybe 6 miles in, we're going maybe 18-20 miles an hour, I must have been putting my water bottle back in the holder, when I look up and there's a rather large black lab parallel with my front wheel and crossing in front of me.

There wasn't much I could do but hit the dog and fall over. I fell to my left, over the dog, onto the pavement, then into the rocky grass. For some reason, I didn't put my hands down, and for some reason, I was wearing my heart-rate monitor even though I hadn't brought my watch that monitors my heart rate. So i end up landing on my face and chest. scraped up the left side of my face pretty good, the friction between my heartrate monitor and the pavement tore some holes in my jersey. And I got a pretty decent gash on the top of my right thumb, seems like it was almost to the bone. That was dripping blood quite a bit.

The dog's owner was mortified, offered to pay for bike adjustments and a new jersey. He ran home and got me a towel, water and bandaids.

I'll take him up on the cost of a new jersy for sure.

7th Annual Buena Vista Bike Fest Followup

The bike ride went well! It was a long ride, and my legs were on the edge of cramping up towards the end, but I'd say we did pretty well. It was great to see there were a lot of people in the ride, with a wide age range. I don't particularly enjoy riding up/down mountain passes: it get's pretty windy while you're riding right next to highway traffic with about a foot of shoulder. It was great to ride in the mountains, it was really beautiful up there, a buena vista. I'm looking forward to the MS 150 in July.