More October outings

 A bit more October outings to update the Blog!

October 10- PPRRN Meet & Eat Ride to Good Neighbors Meeting House for Lunch

Time again for the monthly PPRRN Meet & Eat, this month of October. Jo and I headed up to Criterium Bike Shop, just off the Pikes Peak Greenway. We are using it as a "meet point" to lead a ride over to the Templeton Gap Trail, east to Union Blvd. We pick up a short accessway to Templeton Gap Road, cross Fillmore St. and continue on the T-Gap Road bike lane to head west on the Rock Island Trail, picked up, Shooks Run Trail, south to Columbia St. and the Good Neighbors Meeting House for the EAT part of the ride. 

If you're not able to ride, we encourage meeting us and joining in. We had 4 riders and one person that was recuperating from a minor injury. ate, talked and enjoyed a beautiful day in So. Colorado! That was the "official" end of the ride/meet but we ended up taking Jill back to the Sinton Trail towards her home as she needed to go to a meeting of some sort. Jo and I went up to the Garden of the Gods Rd./Centennial Blvd intersection to see if the actually, closed down a Starbucks we have used in the past to get iced tea, RATS, it's closed up, they even took down the signs!! So, we headed to the Mavrick Station and had our iced tea and snack bar.

We headed back on the Sinton Trail to the PPGW and back to the apartment.

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October 11- A ride to Manitou Springs for a Picnic Lunch

Another beautiful day on tap so we headed out on the PP Greenway to the Mesa Springs Greenway to get to a few city streets to get us over to Midland Trail heading to our favorite picnic spot in Manitou Springs, just off the Creek Walk Trail. 

Headed back, to America the Beautiful park in downtown, Colorado Ave Bike Lane over to Pikes Peak Ave bike lane. Picking up Shooks Run Trail north and for a second time in 2 days ended up at the Good Neighbors Meeting House for iced tea and snack bar. Headed back home via Shooks Run Trail and Rock Island Trail Connector. Enjoyed a really kickback day of a ride!

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That's it for this Blog Enty folks! Today is gray, cloudy and rainy so it might be a few days before we get ridable weather around here, until we Come Together, AGAIN-HAPPY TRAILS! 

October 5, 2026-Food Run and Lunch Ride

 It was "that time" again to hook up the cargo trailer and head out on the Rock Island Trail to go to the local Walmart Market.

October 5- On a sunny morning, we got to the food store and as usual I did the shopping and Jo, stayed outside to do "Guard Dog" duty! After the mad rush and the pain of having to go through the register, finally got out of the store and loaded up the trailer and panniers for the ride home. 

 Arrived at home and set about unpacking and getting the supplies upstairs and the cold goods into the refrigerator and freezer!

After discussing what we wanted for lunch, we decided on getting a "burger" and headed north on the PP Greenway up to the junction with the UVC or University Village Colorado Center Smash Burger. After lunch, we headed out to ride the Vincent St. Loop and head home but wasn't ready to quit the ride so we headed down to Duck Lake just of the PPGW westside trail.

Starting to get late afternoon so we headed back up the PPGW, westside and home. Nice day even made a dreaded errand enjoyable!!

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Thanks for checking out the blog, more October rides coming up soon, HAPPY TRAILS!

October 4, 2026- Motorless Morning at the Garden of the Gods City Park

 October 4- Motorless Morning at the GoG Park

On an absolutely beautiful day, we rode the October version of the Motorless Morning at the GoG Park. This is where they block all CAR traffic through the park so only, runners, walkers, bike and trike rider, skaters and skateboarders can use the roads of the park from 5 AM to 12 Noon! This happens in late April and early October. The Garden of the Gods is a beautiful city park that has "National Park" numbers of visitors each year! 

So here, for your pleasure is the "Nickle Tour" of the GoG with Jo and I on the trikes and lot's of other folks just "GROOV'IN" on a Sunday morning! Come on along for the ride and ENJOY!

After leaving the Garden Area, we headed through the park and all the fun and fast downhills and did a quick photo op at Steamboat and Balanced Rock. Turned around and then headed to a different section of the park.

 From this point we rode by the GoG Trading Post, (great cafe and souvenirs) and back into the park to pick up the exit road. As we were coming to the junction to go out of the park, we managed to get a video shot of a Heard of Big Horn Sheep! Heading out we picked up the Foothills Trail over to the 31st. bike lane and headed to Starbucks for our brown bag lunch and green iced tea.

Then crossed over Colorado Ave to get to the Midland Trail and head east back into America the Beautiful Park and head to Monument Valley Park. We stopped at that park "Garden Area" to eat our snack bar and get a break from the sun in the cool shade.

  Picked up the Pikes Peak Greenway, westside trail and headed back to the apartment, a very enjoyable ride, hope you all can check it out someday!

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