Snippets of Fun, Fast Ride

On Tuesday, Howard rode up and over the Horsetooth Dams road. Brief 16% climbs, sustained 10% climbs. Exhausting work, but somebody's gotta do it, right? He's noticing improvement with his climbing, which has been gratifying. Above is a photo looking over the north side of Fort Collins from one of the dams. Along the bottom of the photo is the water treatment facility providing fresh, clear Horsetooth water for about 150,000 people. Yum... Horsetooth water...

Next is a brief video of Howard flying down the northern-most dam. Twice he's reached 55.1 mph coming down this road, but on this day he had a brain fart that he would videotape his descent. Although he only hit 51.3 mph this time (only!) because he didn't go into a full tuck, it also became clear that videotaping at that speed was damned dumb. So he couldn't find the nerve to start taping until he slowed to the low 30s...


Finally, a videotape at a stop along the Poudre River Trail. It got up to the mid-70s that day, yet everything is still so brown...