I think my Florida friends are following me…and I don’t hate it. First, my friend Courtney and her husband moved to Denver a few months ago and now my cycling buddy, Dave, is spending the summer in Boulder. Dave is actually the first person I rode with in Florida after I got my bike(s). I …
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This post was supposed to be about the beautiful sunset rides I took this week with a friend, but it turned into a story about how buying my first road bike turned into a love affair with cycling. I hope you like it. ^^^ My second CX race last year. I rode and raced my …
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I don’t get real honest-to-goodness girl time that often because, honestly, I just don’t have that many close girlfriends. I definitely could. I’ve met so many great women here in Boulder over the last year and a half, but I need to be more consistent at checking in and making plans and investing time in …
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I got the dates wrong the first time I tried to run here. ^^^ This was the road to the trailhead; the entrance is behind me. Travois Trail is open to runners and hikers on ODD numbered weekend days and mountain bikers (and really ballsy drop bar cyclists) every other day. Even though I checked the date …
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I’m still playing catchup over here after some long work weekends and a weekend away in Santa Fe, but I wanted to get this one out because I just had a really fun time with my friend in the mountains. Here we go. A couple weeks ago, Courtney (my new-to-Colorado friend), and I planned a …
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“If discontent is your disease, travel is your medicine.” -Jedidiah Jenkins At the end of 2017, I was so sick. I was drowning in regret after dismantling the most important relationship I had ever had. My anxiety and stress tore ulcers in my stomach. Every night I cried in a ball on my bedroom floor, …
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Last year around this time, as spring weather and brighter mornings rolled in, I challenged myself to do something new every weekend. It didn’t have to be a big something, even visiting a new coffee shop would suffice. But it encouraged me to explore more of Colorado, break out of the Boulder Bubble, run a …
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“I don’t know if Boulder is for me.” A friend and I were on a bike ride on Sunday morning to enjoy some miles in the sunshine before we get more snow this week, but, more importantly, to get coffee. He moved here around the same time I did almost two years ago, and we …
Last week our office was closed for Good Friday. This new agency I’m at usually shuts down on Fridays and/or Mondays before and after holiday weekends, so a short week and a long weekend felt like such a treat. Earlier in the week I made bike + coffee plans with a friend in Boulder for …
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The more I’m working in and exploring Denver, the more I’m realizing that I really wrote that city off for awhile. When I first moved to Colorado and got settled in Louisville and then Boulder, I didn’t make the trip to Denver that often. I worked in RiNo (the trendy River North Art District near …
