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Published in the Denver Post: Friday, August 6, 2004
Get pedaling...
By Jack Cox
Denver Post Staff Writer
Marathon cycling events in Colorado are organized by the Rocky Mountain
Cycling Club, a Denver-based group whose unabashed motto is "For People Who
Love to Ride."
And love it they do, turning out in contingents of 25 or more for weekend
training rides that start out slow in February but can cover nearly 100 miles by
April each year - a point in the season when most cyclists feel satisfied if
they can go 50.
"They push you," says longtime member Pat Wilburn, 48, a
Westminster businesswoman who clicked off 67 miles on a recent Sunday in
preparation for a week-long Cycle America tour in Montana with her friend Peggy
Martin, 44, a neonatal nurse.
While the club sponsors several multi-day tours that average 100-plus miles a
day, its signature ride is an annual Denver-to-Aspen brevet that covers 180
miles in one day.
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