Lessons learned and things I saw on first ride in Tour de Pac 12
What a beautiful place to start the ride and what a great
reminder that the best laid plans often don’t pan out. I didn’t get an email
that was supposed to update me of a new start
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After ride at Folsom Field. #todayican |
point and therefore the ride
started much later than planned. I had to jump into my ride right in the middle
of the route I laid out. I couldn’t tell if the Garmin was picking up the route
in midstream or another route and it seemed to lead me all over the place, when
I thought I should be turning right, it told me to turn left and it took
forever to get rolling.
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#todayican at Mile High Stadium en route to Boulder |
It was a great reminder because while on the way to Mile
High, where the Broncos play football on Sundays, the Garmin told me to turn left and I could clearly
see the top deck of the stadium stands sticking out on the other side of a building in
the opposite direction it told me to go, as I went up the street it told me to
turn again and I was not heading to Mile High, of that I was positive. After all the
stands were sticking out of the building behind me now so I turned around and
headed back, got back on the trail by the river and headed to my destination
while my Garmin screamed OFF COURSE! OFF COURSE! OFF COURSE! I was certain it
was giving me the wrong route or trying to lead me away from the stadium
instead of toward it, after all I had been in Denver all morning and that
pretty much made me the expert on where the Broncos play football. Since I rode
the trail by the river I really could not see much of the landscape up along the
road so I worked my way back up right where I thought the stadium was and
that is when I found out that thing sticking out was not part of the stadium but actually
was a unique
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River trail by downtown Denver |
piece of architecture protruding from a museum I later learned. It was not even close to
the size of a football field and several miles in the opposite direction from
Mile High Stadium. In fact, as the pictures from my ride show, there isn’t
really a top deck of the stadium that sticks out. Not only did I not know where
the stadium was, I did not even know what it looked like.
What it reminded me is how I so often live my life, I’m
pretty sure I know where I am going and that the man upstairs does not really
understand the best way to get there even though He has a view from above that
actually knows what is behind the next corner where I think I want to go and
when I get warnings that I am off
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Haunted Colorado State Capitol in Denver |
course, I plow ahead and ignore those
messages. I got a lot of those messages from a couple of Doctors that told me
to lose weight or suffer the consequences and when canes and sore backs and
high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels showed up, I plowed
ahead and just took more meds that put a different Band-Aid on my problem
without ever stopping the bleeding. Thankfully in 2012 I listened and even though I did to that
message I find it funny how frequently I still miss those messages.
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Victor Davanzo with All My Sons Moving in Denver |
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Colorado Rockies home field |
Enough of my deep thoughts though, how about some pictures from the ride, after all Colorado is a pretty state and a lot more interesting than my rambling. I got some good climbs in but I picked a route that would challenge me but not wear me out. I had a rough spot with the weather toward the end but I felt really good about getting up and down the hills and fighting through some wind. It’s on to Salt Lake where I am going to ride one of four state rivalry rides I am going to do, where I ride between two rival schools, this time it is riding from BYU to Utah. We are plowing through Wyoming now and cutting over to Utah and Linda is ready for me to shut up, hope you enjoyed my thoughts and the pics from the ride.
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Beautiful lakeside park outside downtown Denver |
STATS FROM THE RIDE:
Ride #1
Saturday, June 21, 2014
41.7 Miles ... 2,489 feet of elevation
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Colorado Football |
To Date
41.7 Miles ...2,489 feet of elevation
Total rides 1
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Pulling up to Folsom Field |
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doing the airplane thing on my bike |
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Folsom Field in the Summer |
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