The name Maynard as well as bike shops and running are a big part of Tucson. At least from my perspective. Lisa Schnebly Heidinger and I spent some time talking about these topics on her podcast “Celebrating Arizona.” As usual, her reporter’s sense and our ability to have a balanced conversation made for a fun […]
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El Tour de Tucson is a fixture on the calendar, particularly with the cycling community. With 10,000-plus riders on the three top distances (Century, Metric Century, Half Metric Century) plus the shorter rides and running events, this is an immersive event for the city and county. The 2025 edition of this event was a turning
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The fall edition of this immersive community event was just as much fun or more fun that previous installments. This time around it was held on a bike boulevard with which I am not familiar- North 9th and 10th Avenues, and 15th Avenue. The bonus of this was that unfamiliar territory takes you to new
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Having ridden this event in the past, I knew this was going to be fun. It happens twice a year (spring and fall) and takes a different route each time. Usually held on a bike boulevard, this time it was the Treat Avenue corridor. The “course” is usually about 3 miles in length and anchored
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They say if you give a cyclist a cookie… Oh, wait, that was a mouse! Seriously, the Tour de Cookie bike rally in Marana, Arizona, was fun offbeat and tasty. Less of a bike rally and more of a fun outing with friends, this ride really didn’t have a beginning, middle or end. We started
It was too cold to ride this morning, I told myself. So instead of riding while Sal was at the groomer, I headed out to a familiar coffee shop near the Catalina Highway. This is where I insert the phrase “…behold the power of random conversation.” After parking myself at a table near the back
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The Mural Dog and I visited a place I’d only heard of while growing up here. In the past I would have cycled to this place (about 10 miles one way from my house), but decided to make it a stroll-and-discover walk with Sal. Our regular weekly trip to the Mercado was postponed due to
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“It’s not about the bike,” Lance Armstrong said and then gave that title to a book. The book was about his cancer journey and how bikes helped him traverse it. It also relates to a daily relationship with one’s bicycle. I’ve said it before that I’ve gone from hundreds of miles each week to (almost)
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Lately the bicycle has become an escape or a mechanism to move from place to place. Not at breakneck speed in Lycra on downturned handlebars. Rather, upright, more sedate and with the object of getting there and enjoying the trip along the way. Some call it “bicycle tourism.” Others call it boring because it ain’t
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They did it again. They managed to merge cycling with culture, food, dance, art and just about anything a community has to offer into a short ride. This time it was from north to south. Beginning in the Barrio Viejo neighborhood and leading participants to it’s terminus at 29th Street (or so). Along the way
