Well, the wife and boys are escorting her dad to Missouri this weekend. The daughter worked both days. That means I got in a couple nice rides during my “alone time.”
Saturday morning I headed up to Cherry Creek State Park. I haven’t created a map, but it was pretty similar to the run on this post from last summer. Perfect morning for it as it started out cool and overcast and finished nice and sunny. Total ride was right around 34 miles.
While up around the park I stumbled into the midst of the Greenwood Village Goose Chase. That’s an event I’d never heard of but looked like they were having a good time. Seemed like a fund raiser of some sort (?) but I sure can’t tell who benefits from the web site. I rode with ‘em for a bit and then split off so I wouldn’t be in the way.
This morning (Sunday) I thought I’d try out a route that I’d recently spotted that involved a run through the Pinery neighborhood. Funny how hills that you don’t really notice in a car can kick your butt on a bike! (click that picture for details)
I was able to get over to the Pinery neighborhood easily enough, but I never did spot my turn off and ended up just doing a complete loop through the neighborhood and then dropping back onto the Cherry Creek trail. I enjoyed the loop once I was done worrying about having a heart attack from that initial climb…
From the trail I headed North to the Parker Rec Center, then turned around and picked up Sulfur Gulch trail to head back up to the ‘hood.
The map shows 25, my bike odometer shows just under 26 miles. I didn’t put the stretch where I wandered through the downtown farmer’s market on the map 