Josh Beard

My longest ride to date.

I’d been wanting to do a 50 mile ride all summer but just hadn’t gotten around to it. One issue I have is that riding back home is an annoying climb back for a while, with the worst of it being in the last mile. So long rides get a bit painful at the end if I’m riding from home and back.

I wanted to do something in town and knew I could get the mileage out of the Pikes Peak Greenway and the Fountain trail, with what little was open of the New Sante Fe trail. I parked at the Goose Gossage ball fields and headed South, as far as I could, on the Pikes Peak Greenway trail and into the Fountain Creek Regional Trail. It has an unfortunate end to it - a closed off bridge.

I thoroughly enjoyed the scenery on this, except for the sketchy and gritty couple of blocks in town. I’ll definitely do it again.