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My First Bike Race

Posted on June 27, 2011

Note: Following is an imaginary transcript of a phone call I would have made during the Winter Park XC Super Loop Race on June 25—if I’d been feeling chatty. (Inspired by a Frank O’Hara poem.) Hello, this is Roberta from … Continue reading →

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A Meditation on Gear, In List Fashion

Posted on May 30, 2011

The equation biking + capitalism means that I ride, and I buy stuff for riding. I’ve even created a line item in our family budget for bike stuff. Mostly, I try and keep it within the dollar amounts that my … Continue reading →

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It’s All in Your Head

Posted on May 17, 2011

There are those certain special sections on your local ride. You know them well. They’re sorta scary, but not really dangerous. But the line is difficult to find. Often you pedal up to the first part of a series of … Continue reading →

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Into the Woods

Posted on April 29, 2011

Riding on Wednesday afternoon, the sky hung low and there was a misty fog in the air, and it was cold, around 50 degrees. More like the east or west coast than the usually dry, airy foothills west of Denver, … Continue reading →

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Breaking The Law

Posted on April 6, 2011

Not to be paranoid or anything, but it seems like there are lots of people out there who don’t like mountain bikers–people who see us a lazy, dangerous, and dumb. Of course, there are always a few bad apples to … Continue reading →

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23 Things I Thought About While Riding Yesterday

Posted on April 1, 2011

The ride: Chimney Gulch, Golden, Colorado. Temp: around 50 degrees. Wind: howling with gusts at least 40 mph. Start time: 5:07 PM. Finish: 7:03 PM. Vertical climbed: 1,735 feet. Total miles:7.05 miles. __________________ Thoughts, in no apparent order: 1. Dammit, … Continue reading →

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Scared

Posted on March 29, 2011

Last week I got the results from a recent blood test and found out that I have a cholesterol problem, which came as a total, utter, shock. A problem to the tune of 240 for an overall reading; 170 for … Continue reading →

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Mixed Taste, Deconstructed

Posted on March 7, 2011

Two Saturdays ago I had the wonderful privilege of being a speaker at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Mixed Taste—On Ice” lecture series. Simply put, two speakers on vastly differing topics are randomly chosen to pair up and talk about … Continue reading →

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Bike Sharing is Fun!

Posted on February 27, 2011

A few weeks ago, while in Washington, D.C. at a conference, I had the great joy of finally trying out a bikeshare bike, DC-style. They were around all summer here in Denver, but I never got around to it. Too … Continue reading →

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January is Warm–and Arty

Posted on January 30, 2011

I rode Green Mountain yesterday around sunset–it was 68 degrees in Denver, which is absolutely nuts–and found myself viewing every panorama as contemporary art. Seems like I saw some Pollock on the trail, some Warhol in the parking lot, some … Continue reading →

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