Fall in Colorado. I love this time of year here.
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More Colorado colors on my evening ride today. We’re about a week or so behind Aspen (my ride from the weekend) on leaves changing. This weekend should be a blaze of gold around here. 
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Rode the first ~40 miles of Sunday’s Elite Men’s course. Crossed paths with Neilson Powless(USA), Kevin Vermaerke(USA), Larry Warbasse(USA), Ben Healy(Ireland), and Archie Ryan(Ireland). Jealous of the riders getting closed roads through town, that shit is frustrating, but the country-side was great!
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More Colorado colors on my ride this afternoon. This is probably peak color weekend for us. I’ll try get out with the family this weekend so they can enjoy it also.
I also got a PR on one of the popular downhill trails. 3.2 miles. 10:43. I’m now ranked #30 out of 4900. I can’t say I was looking around to enjoy the fall colors on that section however!
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@DaveWh love these pics! Keep them coming. Been raining for a week straight in northern Virginia, so we may not get any fall colors this year. Will have to see them vicariously through your pics!
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I’m headed to CO for some mental rehab, and he’s got me so excited!
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Great time of year to visit for sure.
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Its been torrential the last week and a lot of places are flooded. But it stopped raining yesterday morning and the skies cleared overnight. As a result the temperature plummeted but it was a beautiful day. So after the club run and few pints in a beer garden we diverted to bypass a flood and I just went on for a bit.
The power meter is on the blink but came back in the Fens 
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Bike against the guardrail with the stars & the front & rear lights shining is mint! 
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Agreed! As long as you know the roads and there are few cars. Have to admit that the wife was none too happy when I left for last weekend’s ride 45 min before sunrise, but I added a reflective armband and was still on roads with lights until sunrise.
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Out to a place called Yaxley to meet a local group. They only reckoned they had enough riders for the slow group, so the first 4.3miles is at an IF of 0.47 and it was freezing. Luckily some other riders thought they were too cold too and decided to form the faster group after all, not that its actually that fast. I done a lot of riding on the front to stay warm and my hand only numbed up once on a descent (with the slow group that would have been 10x). I dropped right off at that point (somewhere near Brigstock) but resumed service as soon as it went back up again. I had to curb that though so that I did drop anyone. We came across one flood at Cotterstock so we doubled back to Oundle and came back to Yaxley via Polebrook.
Edit I forgot to say with it being cold and grey and the world champs being on I didn’t have an urge to extend the ride today.
Also, carefully raising the battery connectors in 4iiii’s I think has sorted the power meter
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Pretty much an easy ride today, exploring the area around where we’re staying in Boulder, Colorado. Didn’t take pics because I was focused on navigation and learning the area, but here’s a few pics from our hike yesterday at Ann U. White trail. The weather has been beautiful! Really enjoying a break from the Houston heat!
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The deer who greeted us at the trailhead
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Day 2 in Boulder. Went out planning on a longer ride, but realized half an hour in that I completely forgot any water bottles. Decided to pound a gel and get in a quick workout instead. Still getting used to the fact that 70 degrees in the sun here feels like 85 in Houston. Very gusty ride, but love being able to get out of town in 15 minutes and ride rural roads, paths, and trails. I also need to get better at following workouts when everything isn’t completely flat! 
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Hiking today in the Brainard Lake area of the Roosevelt National Forest (Colorado).
Not a ton of elevation gain, but we started at over 10,000 feet and the last half was all a steady uphill. Definitely harder to breathe and work when you live at 100 feet and then workout at 10,000!
A little frost on the ground, but no ice. Got my feet wet a couple times crossing small streams. Saw a few deer and the back end of a moose.
3.5 hours of thin air and sore legs, 40 hrTSS. 
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A little variation to the regular group ride today to avoid flooding and a few members joined us at the cafe, as a result the first half was a bit faster. It was quite a chilly start though
, which plays havoc with my neuropathy so I was dropping back big time on descents and as a result getting an interval in chasing back. Lol, when we got to a cafe three mates were already there, two hiding the warmth of inside and one who came on his own was sitting outside. It probably was still a little cold. By the time we got round to the pub though it had warmed up a bit so we enjoyed an unexpected Beer Garden stop (the beer wasn’t unexpected only the outside in the garden bit 
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Out to the flat Fens with the Yaxley Riders today to a town called Ramsey before cutting west to the Holly Lodge cafe before heading back north to Yaxley. I think I needed thicker gloves to keep the neuropathy at bay when folks are tired.
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Mellow ride with the wife this morning. Gravel, beautiful fresh tarmac, cow paths, multi-use paths, and some light singletrack. It’s been hazy along the Flatirons while we’ve been in Boulder, and today was the worst, so I didn’t take many pictures.
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