BV or Bust

It was way past time to give the road bike some love.  It’s funny, in Houston I practically lived on my road bike.  Pre-COVID my routine was long group rides on weekends, recovery ride on Monday, hammerfests on Tuesday and Thursday, summer races on Wednesday, rest day Friday.  Like clockwork.  For years.  About the only time I rode my mountain bike was to race.  But that makes some sense.  Houston is pavement rich, trail poor.  Here, the equation has been flipped and I now find I live on my mountain bike while the road bike mostly collects dust on a hook in the garage.  It was time to right that wrong.

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Spring!

I realize my posts haven’t been all that frequent lately.  That’s partly due to the fact that we’ve begun to settle into our lives here in Colorado and while that’s all wonderful and good, the things we’re doing don’t nicely fit into a blog that I’m sharing with the world. And partly because, as mentioned in the previous post, the spastic weather has kept our outdoor activities local, which end up being much like the ones I’ve already talked about in previous posts.  But in the past few weeks the weather has started to warm up, the intermittent snow storms have turned to intermittent rain showers and things are finally starting to turn green around here.  It seems like spring is real.

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Tour de Leadville

So I was thinking of going to Leadville.  Back in November when I bought my fat bike, the guys at Cycles of Life made a point of telling me about Leadville’s groomed winter trails,  “One of the best places to ride snow in the area!”  A couple of our neighbors cross-country ski and they also mentioned the Leadville trails to me.  I figured it would be a good idea to make a trip up to the Cloud City before the snow gets melted out for the season.

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Steep and Deep

Photo credit: Allie Stevens

The month of March is certainly making up for what has been an otherwise ‘meh’ snow season in Colorado.  I woke up Wednesday with intentions of going for a bike ride but with five or so inches of fresh snow at the house and Monarch reporting nine it seemed like skiing would be the better option.  

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Light at the end of the Tunnel

Being of a certain age that qualifies you for such things, Ms. Seeking and I became eligible for our COVID vaccine this week.  After a year of weirdness and months of waiting I can honestly say I have never been more excited to receive a vaccination.  Come to think of it, I’ve never had a vaccination elicit any kind of excitement at all until this one.  

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The Weight

If you haven’t heard of Playing for Change and their Songs Around the World you owe it to yourself to check it out.  They basically ask musicians from all over the world to play a song on their respective instruments, then edit it together into something that is truly greater than the sum of its parts.  You can find dozens of their songs on the YouTube or the Playing for Change website.  This is one of my favorites, The Weight by The Band, featuring Robbie Robertson himself.  In the key of F-demented, if you’d like to play along.