Darker morning commutes.

Using lights all the way to work anymore. But the weather is great and the time outdoors is well spent.

Caught up with a riding buddy on his commute home from work this afternoon giving us a chance to visit while riding. The great thing about biking is the friends you meet and get to know while riding.

Today's miles = 19.70

Nacho Riding into the sunset.

It was a great night to take the Mopac trail to Eagle for Nachos and 75 cent tacos! Perfect weather, some of bugs on the way back, but still an amazing ride.

Be sure to Nacho Ride next week for the Nacho Appreciation ride with prizes being given away every 15 minutes!

Today's commute to work then straight to the Nacho Ride, then home totaled 40.20 miles.

The Cityview Honey Creek Fall Cycling Festival 10/9-10/11 Lake Rathbun, Ia.

Click here to check out this new weekend ride on the otherside of the river!

Come Nacho Ride Tonight!

The rain is supposed to wait till after midnight to hit our area. So ride out to Eagle for some nacho goodness! Click here to read about my past Nacho Rides. Or click here to see the official Nacho Ride site. It'll be a great night for it. And be sure to be at next weeks big Nacho Appreciation Ride!!!

A family day at the Nebraska State Fair.

Sunday we went to check out the fair. Lots to see and do! We had a great time during the 6+ hours we were there.

Fishing in N. Central Ks.

While the girls visited and went to church. The boys and I were guided on a great large mouth and pan fish pond tour. We caught a ton and enjoyed a whole day of great weather and excellent fishing! A special thanks to our wonderful hostes for a weekend our family will never forget.

Headed toward the weekend! Yea!

What a great day for a ride!

Going to work and back today totaled 19.71 miles.

Community CROPS & Sunset Community Farm Walk

Community CROPS & Sunset Community Farm 2009 Farm Walk Friday, September 11th 5:00-7:30pm Southwest 40th and West F Streets New this year: Soup Supper celebrating local food For just $8, you get all the food you can eat: West African Peanut Soup and Harvest Vegetable Soup provided by Thé Cup using CROPS vegetables Fresh local bread Cucumber lemonade from Pepe's Delicious desserts Kids 5 & Under eat free To reserve your meal ticket, call the CROPS office at 474.9802 or email crops@communitycrops.org Activities include: Farm tours Free raffle drawing for many great prizes including a gift certificate for 25% off the 2010 CROPS CSA, handpainted birdhouse, CROPS canvas bag, Ross Film Theater tickets and more! Kids activities including scarecrow-stuffing for kids, music making with Jim King and chicken petting Food samples by CROPS farmers, and plenty of new vegetables to try Live music Buy fresh vegetables, CROPS t-shirts, get a chair massage for just $8 and more Special raffle prizes for those that bicycle to the farm! Free admission to tour the farm and enjoy the activities. Sunset Community Farm gives an opportunity to a wide variety of people to grow food for themselves and for market. Managed by Community CROPS, there are farmers growing tomatoes, eggplant and okra in their beginnings of their farm business, an Italian heirloom vegetable grower, and the Community CROPS plot, where we grow crops for our CSA (vegetable subscription program). Others are gardening for their families and a communal plot has crops grown for farm income. Everyone is welcome, whether you want to see a working sustainable vegetable farm, or are interested in having a plot of your own next year. Bring your friends. Kids are welcome! The farm is at SW 40th and West F Streets. Take A Street west to SW 40th and turn right. Follow the road to F Street and turn left. You'll see a red building on your immediate right, which is the farm site. Signs will be posted. Map to the farm Note: Occasionally map sites recommend taking West O to SW 40th Street, but it has been closed from that side. You need to go out west A Street to get to the farm. Plans are being made for a group bike ride to the farm--let us know if you're interested. Printable flyer for posting

A sweet commute.

Today wasn't my most athletic ride. But the great weather made up for it. If your not spending some time on your bike during these cooler days your missing out. Now, go apologize to your bike and take it out for a ride! Today's miles = 19.90.

The 100 mile Nacho Ride!

Had the day off so I took the long route to Eagle for the Nacho Ride.

I made up some sandwiches and headed into a stiff S.E. wind across Holmes Lake and down the Antelope Creek Trail to Hwy. 2 then East to the Bennet exit.

I went South through Bennet, but needed some water.

Low and behold, about two miles outside of town this hydrant was ready to fill my water bottle and I was good to go.

I pulled into Panama feeling tired of the wind and ready to eat.

Their park was a good place to catch my breath and rest a little.

Downtown Panama.

Got to turn West and cruse into Holland with the wind, lots of nice new homes and acreages.

I needed water again, and sure enough a hydrant at the cemetery outside of Holland was at my beckon call.

I then continued North West into Hickman to find this bait shop on the South side of town.

I was surprised to find that Hickman had a really nice trail system.

I took some time to explore their trails. Their really neat and Hickman should be real proud of them.

An overgrown windmill along the road.

After Hickman I continued West till I got to the Homestead Trail and jumped on it going North back into Lincoln. I took it to the Jamaica North Trail then on the Rock Island Trail to the Zoo, then took the Billy Wolff East. By this point I had about 50 miles, the Nacho Ride from my house is almost 30, so I figured I'd ride a bit more and see if I could get a century in today.

I continued East down the Antelope Creek Trail to Hwy. 2 again, then turned around and took it back toward the house, I threw in a lap around Holmes Lake and then home for about a 1/2 hour break before leaving for the Nacho Ride.

On the Nacho Ride I saw lots of regulars and some 1st timers too. Even several Taco Ride regulars came out of Omaha to Nacho Ride tonight. I met up with my personal trainer / blog photographer as well as my pit crewman. By now, I knew that if I went strait home I'd be about 5 miles short of a century, so my personal trainer / blog photographer suggested we ride the Mopac another 2 1/2 miles East of Eagle after supper at the One Eye'd Dog Saloon to tack on the 5 miles I needed. My pit crewman offered to join us. Lucky for me! Because when we walked out of the OED my front tire was flat. We headed for the aircompress0r at Casey's, patched the tube and were good to go.

By the time I got home it was dark and we were using our lights, but by golly, I did it. This is my 3rd (and FINAL!) century this year. It was a fun, albeit tiring, day.

Today's miles = 100.23