I was pretty sure my eyes were still closed as I swung my leg over the top tube of my bike and rolled out of the driveway following a beam of light attached to my handlebars. 5:33 a.m. When I meet friends in Boulder for bike rides, I have to leave my house at least …
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When my mom called me on Sunday night to catch up, I didn’t tell her I spent the better part of the weekend alone, overcome with loneliness, self-doubt, insecurity—you name it, I felt it. I didn’t tell her that I stood at my counter chopping vegetables for dinner, periodically sobbing into a dish towel. I …
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Man, I really can’t believe what’s happening with all the fires on the west coast. All the people who have been affected, displaced, injured, etc. I think I’m even more sensitive and aware of the situation because we got a tiny taste of it this summer when smoke descended on our town due to the …
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Earlier this week Colorado got its first snowfall of the season. But the season is still summer, so that’s kinda crazy. I shouldn’t be surprised after living here for three years because by now I’m very familiar with freak snowstorms that come of nowhere, blow through town in a couple days, and leave beautiful warm …
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This is going to sound crazy, but I had a feeling that this ride wasn’t gonna go well. Sometimes I have feelings about these things, like way deep down in my gut, and on my drive to Steamboat Springs on Friday afternoon, something felt off about this weekend. I tried to put it out of …
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Well, well, well… Fall is making its way back to Colorado just as the summer calendar is winding down. And, honestly, it feels lovely. The past few months of temperatures in the 90s has been brutal. I moved away from Florida for a reason! (Well, not that reason, but it was a perk!) This past …
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New gravel roads! It’s been awhile since I’ve ridden something brand-new, so as I rounded every corner into the unknown, it was very obvious to me that that was exactly what I needed to feel excited about getting on the bike again. When I lived in Florida, I rode the same roads every single day …
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Happy Friday from me and a cup of instant coffee. You read that right. I have totally been making instant coffee every morning instead of a pot of drip coffee as if I have somewhere to be every day in a hurry. I don’t. Our company has been working from home since the middle of …
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Yesterday would have been SBT GRVL, an epic one-day gravel cycling event in Steamboat Springs. Last year a few of my friends and I took on the 100-mile distance and had an absolute blast. It was the best cycling shape I think I’ve ever been in and definitely the best I have ever felt on …
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A weeknight hike! Haven’t been on one of these in awhile. Last night I met up with a fellow Florida transplant friend in Golden for a golden hour hike. This is the best time of year to go on a hike after work because there’s plenty of daylight, the air is cool and dry, and …
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