Cycling

May 28, 2023

Great day for a family bike ride to Dairy Queen! 🍦

Group of cyclists riding along the Sakatah State Trail past a mile 37 marker shaped like Minnesota, surrounded by green trees and grass.

Group of adults and children smiling and holding Dairy Queen Blizzards and ice cream cones outside a DQ location.

April 9, 2023

Watching the 120th edition of Paris-Roubaix through the Trouée d’Arenberg.

Wall-mounted TV showing Paris-Roubaix cycling race broadcast with a lone rider on cobblestones flanked by crowds waving a Flemish flag.

Wall-mounted TV showing the Paris-Roubaix cycling race with riders entering the Trouee d Arenberg cobblestone section lined with crowds.

April 8, 2023

Digging my new Roll Bicycle C:1 City Bike from Tangletown Bike Shop. I’ve got a bunch of bikes, but I wanted to get a simple city bike to ride around for fun. This perfectly fit the bill, and the folks at the bike shop were great.

Red Roll C:1 city bike displayed on the floor of Tangletown Bike Shop, showing disc brakes and flat handlebars.

September 11, 2022

Pedego Bikes on Cherry Creek Trail

We saw these Pedego bikes at the Minnesota State Fair and Tammy saw they had a rental option in Denver. We got a couple of Element Fat Tire bikes and took Cherry Creek Trail to the city limit and back, just over 20 miles. This was Tammy’s first time on an electric bike and she …

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September 5, 2022

We finished the unofficial last day of summer with a nice bike ride around the lakes, dinner at Punch Pizza, and ice cream cones at Bread & Pickle. What a great day!

Four people smiling and holding ice cream cones near a lake on a summer evening, one wearing a bike helmet.

September 4, 2022

Dairy Queen stop at the halfway mark of today’s family bike ride.

Four people smiling outside a Dairy Queen holding ice cream treats, two wearing bike helmets on a sunny day.

August 27, 2022

On our bike ride today as we were rounding our way around Lake Harriet and coming home Tyler caught the edge of the trail and crashed on his bike, right in front of me. I then slammed on my brakes trying to not run into or over him and went completely over my handlebars. We both got scrapped up and are nursing some significant road rash. Both of our helmets will need to be replaced. Glad we are super consistent about wearing our helmets. But we are okay and will heal up just fine.

Middle-aged man in a blue patterned shirt and Apple Watch displaying a large bandage covering his elbow after a bike crash.

August 27, 2022

We had a wonderful family bike ride around the three main lakes along with a lunch stop at Punch Pizza.

Strava map of a 13.2 mile bike ride around Bde Maka Ska and Lake Harriet in Minneapolis completed in 1 hour 21 minutes.

Group of seven people wearing bike helmets with bicycles near a lake on a sunny summer day

Man in red patterned shirt and white helmet takes a cycling selfie with a group of family cyclists on a tree-lined path.

June 11, 2022

Mazie and I packed rider packets for next weeks Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride today. Our task was unboxing and folding at least 2,000 t-shirts to be put in bags.

Volunteers unbox and sort hundreds of folded maroon t-shirts spread across long tables in a large warehouse space with red walls.

Smiling girl standing behind a folding table stacked with hundreds of folded maroon t-shirts in a large warehouse space

Man and girl smile holding up maroon Minnesota Ironman Bike Ride t-shirts, surrounded by hundreds of folded shirts on tables in a large open space.

May 29, 2022

Afternoon bike ride to Dairy Queen! Perfect 10-mile round trip with an ice cream in the middle.