Other Rides 2017

At the Taos Gran Fondo 2015

One of the great things and new things for me is branching out from the Pedal los Pueblos to do some other great rides in the area.  Last year a few of us did the Fall Blaze (RIP - they have changed the ride, click the link below to see) and it was great to go up with some great teammates and friends to do a destination ride.  I would like to do something similar this year!  Anyone have any favorites in the list below?

Ride	Location	Date	Day	Distances
Enchanted Circle Century	Red River, NM	9/10	Sunday	25/50/100
Tour de Acoma	Acoma, NM	9/17	Sunday	25/50/100
Canon City Bike & Brew/Royal Gorge Century Ride	Canon City, CO	9/23	Saturday	31/62/100
Mountain to Desert	Telluride, CO	9/23	Saturday	70/100
Tour de Ruidoso	Ruidoso, NM	9/23	Saturday	45/62/100
Tour of the Rio Grande	ABQ, NM	9/24	Sunday	39/62/100
Santa Fe Gourmet Classic	Santa Fe, NM	10/7	Saturday	65
Day of the Tread	ABQ, NM	10/29	Sunday	12/24/54/64/80/100
El Tour de Tuscon	Tuscon, AZ	11/18	Saturday	40/55/75/104

Weekend's Rides: 6/24 & 6/25 - Not quite so hot

Another great weekend. This weekend we had both our Saturday and Sunday rides head out!

Saturday's Ride: The Saturday ride met bright and early at O'Neill's at 6 am.  It was a brutal week, with a heat wave parking itself over ABQ and slowly sizzling us with a few days in a row of 100+ degree temperatures.  But by Friday, the heat wave had broken, and we all gathered in the cool morning for a quick ride around the city, taking the inner city loop (route here).

There were 14 of us that headed out: David, Andrew, Olga, Evil Gary, Matt H., Becky, Dennis, Rhea, Tina, Ryan E (nickname needed!), John, Celeste, Brian, and Gordie.  El Jefe caught up with us half way and finished out the ride.  Overall a good ride, a good way to stretch our legs and get a little mileage in.  Didn't get any group photo this week (bad captain!), but I did get a good team picture of everyones shadow!

A picture of all our shadows waiting for the light on Rio Bravo.

Sunday's Ride: Sundays ride left a bit later and featured quite a few repeat riders from Saturday.  Ryan E., Brian, Celeste, Blythe, Bobbie(sp), Rhea, Bex, and Evil Gary headed out for a quick out an back to Balloon Fiesta Park.  Another cool morning and a bunch of balloons launching along the way.
From Balloon Fiesta Park, two riders wanted more mileage and headed off for more fun and the rest of us headed back.  Half the back got distracted by the smells coming from the Waffleria and opted to stop for breakfast and the rest of us broke off for home.  A beautiful inaugural Sunday ride and, for some of us, first ride of the season.  Looking forward to more fun Sundays!

Weekend Ride 6/17: A quick jaunt for coffee....

Yeah!  Training season!  Waking up before dawn!  Sore butts!  Sunburn!

Wait.  I need to make this sound appealing.

Yeah!  Training season!  Getting exercise! Meeting great people! Enjoying the sunrise! Adventure! Camaraderie! Exercise induced euphoria!

It's that time again!  We headed out for first training ride - a quick 26 mile ride up the diversion channel over to the diversion channel, then south on the Bosque trail until at mile 19 we hit up the wonderful Bike in Coffee.  We stopped there for some food and refreshments, before heading uphill on Indian School to get back on the Diversion Channel trail and then south and back to the beginning.

For a first ride we had an impressive turnout!  We had 22 riders join us for the ride, including 8 brand new riders to the Penultimates.  A great start to the 2017 training season.

Drinking and eating and resting and getting bit by mosquitos

The crew!

On the fence about the Bike MS?

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