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@MiniUSA Love this bike rack!  Who needs jewelry when your fiance gives you this sweet bike rack for Valentine’s Day instead?  Matt and I installed it in about 30 minutes on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The instructions were easy to follow and aside from a few small misunderstandings on our part, we figured it out without a problem.  The best part is that as a short female, I was still able to easily lift my bike up on top of the car. My bike is extremly light, and I am extremly strong, but I think anyone with a dose of athleticism could do it too! Go here to find the perfect bike rack for your Mini: Shop Mini USA

@MiniUSA Love this bike rack! 

Who needs jewelry when your fiance gives you this sweet bike rack for Valentine’s Day instead? 

Matt and I installed it in about 30 minutes on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The instructions were easy to follow and aside from a few small misunderstandings on our part, we figured it out without a problem. 

The best part is that as a short female, I was still able to easily lift my bike up on top of the car. My bike is extremly light, and I am extremly strong, but I think anyone with a dose of athleticism could do it too!

Go here to find the perfect bike rack for your Mini: Shop Mini USA

A few posts back I mentioned an all day bike ride through Zion National Park. It was incredible. I left my hotel about 8 am and biked through Springdale into the park, all the way to the far end up a long, winding hill. It was tough and cold, but gorgeous, so well worth it. Once at the top I locked my bike to a tree, stripped off my bike shorts (don’t worry, I had running pants on underneath), and took off for a riverside trail run. And then just kept repeating the process for the next 8 hours! Ride bike. Lock Bike. Run. Ride bike. Lock bike. Run. It was awesome. I snacked on nuts and fruit throughout the day, but by the time I got back to the hotel my stomach was trying to eat itself, so I decided to feed it what it wanted: PIZZA. Behold, the “Good For You” pizza from Zion Pizza and Noodle Company: light sauce, grilled squash & zucchini, sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, with feta & asiago cheeses. It was every bit as good as it looks. And I ate Every. Last. Bite. No joke! I ate this entire pizza :D And then fell asleep for almost 12 hours. It was incredible. I’m not sure which accomplishment I’m more proud of: the marathon bike/hike/run session? Or the prize-winning eating? I think the combination of the two is just the right balance.

A few posts back I mentioned an all day bike ride through Zion National Park. It was incredible. I left my hotel about 8 am and biked through Springdale into the park, all the way to the far end up a long, winding hill. It was tough and cold, but gorgeous, so well worth it.

Once at the top I locked my bike to a tree, stripped off my bike shorts (don’t worry, I had running pants on underneath), and took off for a riverside trail run. And then just kept repeating the process for the next 8 hours! Ride bike. Lock Bike. Run. Ride bike. Lock bike. Run. It was awesome.

I snacked on nuts and fruit throughout the day, but by the time I got back to the hotel my stomach was trying to eat itself, so I decided to feed it what it wanted: PIZZA. Behold, the “Good For You” pizza from Zion Pizza and Noodle Company:

light sauce, grilled squash & zucchini, sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, with feta & asiago cheeses.

It was every bit as good as it looks. And I ate Every. Last. Bite. No joke! I ate this entire pizza :D And then fell asleep for almost 12 hours. It was incredible. I’m not sure which accomplishment I’m more proud of: the marathon bike/hike/run session? Or the prize-winning eating? I think the combination of the two is just the right balance.

Have you been to Zion National Park out in Utah? No? GO THERE NOW. I was just out there for a wedding and it blew my mind. The red rock made for some really fun rock scrambling and some very different trail running than I’m used to. The peak season had just ended so hotel prices were quite reasonable. I highly recommend the Best Western Zion for very comfortable accommodations, or the Canyon Ranch Motel for some local rustic charm. I rented a bike for $35 for the whole day from Zion Cycles and was able to bike the whole lower part of the park from my hotel. It was so much fun!! I’ll put up more pics of the individual hikes soon.

A Gentle Push for Bikers, Not a Shove

So New York City is trying to encourage people to ride bikes more often by offering up a community bike share. Great idea! And as much as I won’t even look at a bike without a helmet on and think anyone who doesn’t wear one is a moron of the highest degree, I don’t think the law should require you to wear one. If you get your brain splattered across the pavement because a helmet might mess up your hair, well, that’s your business. But read this nonsense! And I mean NON-sense:

Some people even oppose wearing helmets at all. George Bliss, the owner of the West Village shop Hudson Urban Bikes and a longtime bicycling advocate, says helmets imply that cycling is dangerous, frightening away potential riders. Going bareheaded, he said, sends a message that city riding is safe [ital is me].

WHAAAA?!?!?!? So no one should wear helmets to encourage more people to ride bikes…and not wear helmets, because city riding is “safe.” Now, full disclosure, I’m slightly bias as I was hit by a car while riding a bike in NYC a few years ago, but still. It doesn’t take someone whose life was saved by a helmet to see the idiocy of this statement. City riding is dangerous. That doesn’t mean don’t do it, it just means be smart about it, and that means wearing a helmet every time you hop on your bike. They can be cute! Check out these bike helmets you’ll want to wear on Refinery 29.

The New York Times

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