Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Bike to Work Day Thoughts

Happy to be back in the Fort...mucho to catch up on!
I skipped Bike to Work Day today -- one of
my favourite days of the year (I'll catch up on the winter one, which I like more) since I worked from home today. Hypocritically, I ended up driving today (out of town). But, I did ride to Horsetooth for a run yesterday, which was great. There must be a Tuesday night bike ride, as I saw many mt. bikers getting ready to ride around 5:30. Kudos to the two guys I saw riding up to the trailhead...maybe 25-30 that drove up. I know it's a tough spot to get up there after work, so my maxim is more of a suggestion than a rule (lest I be found guilty of numerous hypocrisies):

Minimize driving to exercise when you're in town

I think about this mostly when I ride past the 24-Hour Fitness parking lot.
Looking forward to catching up with the trailrunners soon -- a few folks ride to the Tuesday run and we end up getting to the Trailhead Tavern faster than most of the cars!

3 comments:

  1. So glad that you are back. FC wasn't the same without you. Looking forward to going for some runs and to hitting Walrus for a double scoop after the run and Trailhead on Tuesday nights. Welcome back.

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  2. Yeah - I think about this driving to exercise thing when I head to the mountains via car. Can't say that I manage that as well as I ought to ... but I have been doing more out my front door this year. Mostly because of the time constraint versus environmental concerns.

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  3. I don't manage it as well as I ought to, either, but in many of those cases I think you and I are talking about driving when we go to the big mountains, where the distances are longer and the difference in time is significant. I'm more wondering about the ~15-20 min trips within town, that ends in a rec area or gym, where the bike ride may take only marginally more time (based on traffic, etc.).

    I think that's already obvious in Fort Collins/Boulder, but adults on bikes (if you're not a full-on cyclist) is still a strange concept in many other parts of the country.

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