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Biking
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Written by Liquidmantis
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Monday, 20 July 2009 06:27 |
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The other day I found out that it is possible to bike into Denver along hike-and-bike paths from Golden. There's a path along Clear Creek that currently has a section closed due to bridge construction but since I set out on my ride on a Saturday I just circumvented the barricades and the path itself is still intact.
I found a loop that went into Denver, then up through Arvada, and back south into Golden. It was the smallest loop I could make and I didn't want to just do an out-and-back so I went for that. It's a good thing I went for the smaller loop rather than the larger one I was slightly considering as my ride ended up right at 38 miles. While it's mostly flat the route put all my climbing on the tail end getting back to Golden then getting back to the house.
The trail network is really rather nice. There are a lot of parks, both larger public ones and small neighborhood ones, that the trail system links together. I didn't grab any pictures as the goal of this ride was to keep rolling at a steady clip. I stopped for two birds but the great blue heron was shy and I pushed my luck trying to close in too much. I'm not sure what the bird is that I managed to shoot but he was in one of the neighborhood parks and let me get fairly close.
Here's the route map:
090718 Denver
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Hobbies -
Biking
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Written by Liquidmantis
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 08:24 |
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 Look, a post! My readership (hi Mom!) can stop clamoring for me to update the website. I finally tried a new trail, Lair o' the Bear, west of Morrison. It's a beautiful drive to the trailhead and an equally stunning trail. A decomposed granite trail strolls alongside the creek for a brief rolling warm-up until the ascent through pine trees. It's not a very technical trail which makes it great for working on base climbing conditioning.
Here's the Google Map overview:
Lair o' the Bear - 7.7.2009
And of course the Google Earth KMZ with extra information:
Lair o' the Bear- 7.7.2009 Google Earth
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Hobbies -
Biking
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Written by Liquidmantis
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 11:56 |
 I took a little ride around Golden to get some photos of the surrounding area. I'll keep adding to the new Golden gallery as I take more photos as well. This was a humbling ride, I realize that I've got to get myself back into shape. I'll blame my poor performance at least partially on this chest congestion/head cold I've been fighting for just over a couple of weeks now. My poor Texas Hill Country trained legs are going to be forced to man up to the real climbs the trails here present.
As usual, here's the Google Map page:
Golden, CO - 4.04.2008
And here is the Google Earth version, now even complete with speed, heart rate, and elevation 3D overlays.
Golden, CO - 4.04.2008 - Google Earth file
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Hobbies -
Biking
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Written by Liquidmantis
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 17:43 |
I'm trying to get back into the swing of processing and sorting photos, so I whipped up another bike report from one of my first few rides in Colorado. I found the setting that controls the track resolution on the map page as well. I turned it up on this one for better display; hopefully it doesn't cause the page to load too slow now.
Here's the map page:
South Table Mountain - 10.04.2007
And here is the KMZ file for the Google Earth users:
Google Earth version
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Hobbies -
Biking
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Written by Liquidmantis
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 07:42 |
 For a while now I've been playing around with GPS logging my bike rides. This lets me map out my rides and with my heart rate equipped GPS even chart heart rate against speed and elevation changes so that I can track training. Another neat function is that I can sync my digital camera's time with my GPS and then use the resulting GPS tracklog to geotag my photos so that the location they were taken can be shown overlaid on a map. The gallery has a couple of examples already and I plan to try geotagging more of my photos, not just bike rides.
I've been using a program called RoboGEO to bulk tag my photos and export a web page and Google Earth files. Here's an example from one of my last rides in Austin:
Walnut Creak - 7.16.2007
It looks as if RoboGeo throws out a lot of resolution on the tracklog in order to decrease rendering time of the map so that's why the route has a lot of jagged points. This one has some bad data as well because I forgot to turn the GPS on until we started into the ride and I didn't clean up the extra logging as I spun around the parking lot during my cooldown.
I also created a Google Earth KMZ file that shows the actual tracklog. It's available here:
Walnut Creek 070716 Google Earth KMZ
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