More July rides

 Mainly just "kick'in" around rides lately. On July 14th. we were supposed to ride to a PPRRN "Meet & Eat" event at Rudy's BBQ and Country Store BUT it was cancelled due to 100 F early afternoon forecasted temps! Instead, Jo and I got up at 5 AM and after walking to the storage area, getting the trikes loaded up, we headed for the PP Greenway and rode to Panera Bread in the coolness of the morning!! After a great breakfast sandwich, we headed east doing the Nevada Ave frontage road trail and then headed back south on the PPGW to the T-Gap Trail, over the new concrete bridge. Stopped at some asphalt trail damage to take photos for GoCOS, trail maintenance website, hoping for a repair soon! 

 

July 16, Decided to ride the T-Gap trail, heading EAST, over Nevada Ave up to a pit stop at Portal Park. Continuing east, the trail, bends to the north and you get to a "junction" where you either go straight or turn left. We picked the straight trail, then jumped off on the Flintridge Rd. Bike Lane up to Academy Blvd and a Starbucks for iced tea and our infamous "brown bag lunch", LOL! Headed back to the T-Gap and turned north to the end of this fork at Ranch Road. Headed back down the T-Gap to the Junction, then took the LEFT fork, which turns "east" over the drainage canal, up two steep inclines to again dead end at a particular street. So we showed you both "ending points" of the T-Gap trail. Here's a couple of photos and a Video, enojoy!

July 18th. Just a weekly Food Ride, hooked up the cargo trailer and headed to the Walmart Neighborhood Market for the week's food and supplies. Afterwards, the clouds parted so we headed out to the McDonald's on Garden of the Gods Rd., via the PP Greenway and double wide sidewalks on the GoG Rd. Got a BOGO double cheeseburger and black unsweet iced tea. Sadly, while eating on their patio area the black clouds came over Pikes Peak, so we headed back to the storage unit, tucked the trikes in and walked the 1.2 miles home in a off an on lite sprinkle! 

July 19-20 "NO RIDES", the storage area was closed so the complex could be repaved, so no unit access till today, Sunday the 21st. BUT, it's pouring on and off rain so we've been regulated to short walks between storms, RATS! Maybe Monday but Tuesday thru Thursday looks good so we can get "back on the Trails"! :)

July 2024- A ride on the 4th. and more, for now, just hiding from the HEAT!

  It's been of and on, HOT or afternoon thunder storms! On 7-2 we did a short lunch ride due to the 90+ F heat on the PPGW and the Nevada Ave access road trails. 

Here are some photos, etc. on our ride in the Historic Old Northend 4th. of July Parade. We live just on the edge of the boundary of the HON of Colorado Springs, CO. The parade is a lot of kids on bikes and area parents with kids in strollers, wagon's etc. They set up a snack & drinks table in the open space along the old Soccer Field. It's a bit crazy as some to the kids zoom past and get a little "too close" but still fun! 

July 6, 

Other rides were short in duration due to the HEAT, on July 9th. we did a short area ride but didn't take any photos or video, sorry and then on July 11th. we decided to just get in our weekly FOOD Run to the Walmart Neighborhood Market to get food and supplies for the week ahead! We have another PPRRN (pikes peak region recumbent network), Meet & Eat at Rudy's BBQ and Country Store over on 31st. St. and Highway 24 at 11 AM, July 14th. We decided to try a "SUNDAY" to see if more members "might" be willing to show up but LOL, "who knows"! ;) Temps over 95 F for the next 4 days so we will probably NOT be out riding again till Sunday! All the best, hope you getting in lot's of "Miles of Smiles"! 

June 26, 2024, PPRRN Meet & Eat on the 22nd. and a very HOT ride (96F) on the 25th.

 I have been trying to get the riders from our Facebook, Pikes Peak Region Recumbent Network group to "gather" for a monthly, "Meet and Eat"! LOL, so far it's not caught on well but I will keep trying! A Meet & Eat is where you pick a "location" to meet and eat and let the "riders" figure out what routes they want to ride to get to the destination as so far, we don't have any weekend volunteer "RIDE LEADERS" step forward. I set up the event on our Facebook Page for Saturday June 22nd. at 11 AM at the Red Leg Brewery Complex. It has several different Food Vendors! It was a beautiful morning for a meet up, Jo and I as host's were there about 10 minutes early. Sadly, it was just US but we had an excellent Turkey sandwich from Oliver's Deli with the usual unsweet iced tea. We then headed out to see if the Sinton Trail South was passable, due to road construction closings. Got lucky and the path was open, from there, we headed down the PP Greenway over to the Weber St. bike lane to get more iced tea in a late afternoon stop at the Good Neighbors Meeting House. 20 mile day, hot and sunny, enjoyed it! 

6/25 It was a really HOT day, 96 F degrees for a high temp so we did a shorter ride along the Rock Island Trail, heading east to it's current ending point just before Powers Blvd. Did a turn around and picked up the Academy Blvd Pathway over to the Mavrick Station for iced tea and a brown bag lunch on their patio! Felt great to get out of the burning sun, filled up our 2–24-ounce water bottles with ice and water and headed back down Rock Island Trail over to the Tastee Freeze Drive Inn for, you guessed it "more unsweet iced tea" and afternoon snack homemade trail mix. Too hot to continue, headed back to the storage unit and then a HOT walk back to the air-conditioned apartment! Sorry no new photos or video as it was just "TOO HOT" to shoot them, BJ