September 2023, Continued-Hot Ride in the City!!

9/6/2023 Headed out on the Templeton Gap Trail, at one point, it has a fork in the trail so we took the right fork and headed to it's north ending point on Ranch Road. Then we headed back down the trail, across the bridge to the Flintridge Bike Lane, heading east up to Academy Blvd. and a Starbuck's for unsweetened iced tea and our brown bag lunch. Back down Flintridge to the T Gap, then south to the tunnel under Union Blvd and east on the T-Gap to Portal Park for break and afternoon snack. Back to the storage unit and tucked away the trikes. 20 miles, HOT 90 F Sunny!

9/8/2023 Multi-Trail ride on another HOT 90 F day! Took a few photo's at the Pike Revisor and along the Pikes Peak Greenway heading back to the storage unit, then walked home. 

9/9/2023 Had to take a ride all by myself as Jo stayed home, nursing a mean sinus headache. So I headed out north on the PP Greenway and then the Cottonwood Creek Trail and back for lunch, as I had a $2.00 off a sandwich Panera Bread Membership I needed to use before it expired. Got a excellent Black Forest Ham and Goda Cheese Melt, YUM! Stopped to get photo of the Front Range foothills with Pikes Peak to add as a start up for my video. Had to use the backup GoPro Hero 2 as the GPH 3 didn't charge, not sure what happened? Turned off the PP Greenway and headed west up the Sinton Trail up to 31st. Street, turned around with a quick pit stop at Angletech https//:www.cycledifferent.com talked to Kirk about different tires for the front end of the trike for bit softer ride in the future! Then back to the storage unit. 19 miles HOT again, 87 F, Sunny and the 1.2 mile walk home.

 

Here's the Video, ENJOY!

9-2023- No particular place to go!!

9-2-2023: Here's a video of our 24 mile total miles ride!

9-3-2023: There are times when we don't have a particular ride in mind and today was one of those times! We haven't gone south much lately so we just headed down the Weber St. Bike Lane thru downtown Co. Springs on Tejon St. Bike Lane. We decided to stop at the Co. Springs Pioneer Museum in their garden area for some shade and eat our morning snack.

 

Looks like it's undergoing heavy renovation at this time. We enjoyed the shady benches ate our snack and then headed south back on the Tejon St. Bike Lane over to Ivywild area and the old Southgate shopping center to get an Iced Tea, unsweet of course at Panera Bread. Then we headed back, picked up the Cheyenne Blvd. Bike Lane over to the 8th. Street Bike Lane. It's a hard uphill incline up and over 8th. Street, then picked up the Pikes Peak Greenway to America the Beautiful Park for rest break. 

From America the Beautiful Park, took the elevator to the Sky Bridge, then back street to the Pikes Peak Ave. Bike Lane to pick up the Weber St. Bike Lane and headed to the Tasty Freeze Drive Inn for a 2nd. iced tea and afternoon snack! (Jo is a type 2 diabetic, she has to have a small amount of food every 2 hours to keep her blood sugar levels from crashing during exercise!!). It was again, a HOT ride 90 F so as it was 2 PM. we decided to call it a wrap and headed back to the storage unit, then the 1.2 mile walk back to the apartment. Just a ride on a nice day during Labor Day weekend! Hope your weekend was excellent! :)

August 2023-Summer comes to an end, Sadly!! :(

 August 28-31, Well for Jo and I we consider September as FALL, so our summer riding season is over. Lucky for us the HEAT is sticking around a bit longer as it's been back in the 90 F temps. So we've gotten out as much as possible and earlier than we usually start our rides. So I will give you a brief rundown of the rides of the last few days!

August 28, Here's a few photos:

A fun ride over to Nancy Lewis Park via the Templeton Gap Trail here in Co. Springs.

August 29-

LOL, being a bit lazy we just headed out for a ride on another nice the end of summer day!

The photo is just a shot sitting on my trike as Jo ran into Safeway Store for a couple of items.

August 30-

We rode to Manitou Springs via the Midland Trail and Creek Walk Trail, rode to the end of the Creek Walk Trail extension that will one day take you farther into Manitou Springs via trail instead of having to use back roads! We stopped to eat our brown bag lunch at Schryver Park but we headed to the other side of the park for different view!

August 31- 

Todays ride was a "Mission Ride", today is Jo's Mom's birthday, alas she sadly passed away in 1994. We do our best to get to her memorial rose garden area were her ashes are inturned.

Just some photo's of the moment.

We plan on taking a "day off" riding for September 1st. as we've been riding in a lot of HEAT and need a break. The great, hot weather will continue Wednesday next week so we got much more "end of summer" riding to do! Hope your getting in lot's of miles of SMILES out on the trails and roads! :)