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I've been working on this  skatepark in Hartford for a long time. Our hope is that this summer will be our summer. Everything is in plac...

Just saw an announcement of a trail cleanup day along the East Hartford section of the Hockanum River Trail this Saturday, June 1st.  9AM-n...

People in New England were all "crazy weather" this weekend. It was justified, as Memorial Day snow is sort of weird. I had n...

Folks at work this week talking about their three day weekend were saying things like, "I'll finally get a chance to catch up on my...

Last week: hooray for bikes!  Last week, it was all bike bike BIKE! Ride your bike to work, ride your bike to happy hour, ride your b...

At around 1PM on Sunday afternoon, I had serious need for a break, a chance to get out of the house and two events that sounded appealing. ...

I have prided myself on not falling out of boats. Once in ninth grade, I was trying to flirt with this girl from East Granby. We were bot...

Had the opportunity to chat with Colin McEnroe on Thursday afternoon .  Oddly they decided the conversation was interesting enough that it...

I rode down to New Haven yesterday to get some lunch. I was split between pizza and Mexican food, but the view from the Mexican food is b...

As you've probably been made aware, it's "bike to work day" on Friday. People are always so smug about how great it is ...

I went for a very pleasant bike ride yesterday up through South Windsor. I finally crossed the rubicon that is the Stoughton Brook and, ...

My ankle is still bothering me, so when I went up to Vermont this past weekend I spent most of my time plumbing instead of riding my bike...

*** Fun Fact:  My previous title for this post resulted in the suspension of our Twitter feed.  I guess they thought I was a spam porn bot. ...

The CT DOT held a public info and comment session this past Tuesday to present the planned road diet for Burnside Avenue (AKA Rt 44).  Ther...

I was eating an omelet this morning, so I was thinking about pedals. The skillet I use the most often is this large Lodge cast iron one....

That stands for Post-Traumatic Detour Disorder, but I kid. The route of this year's De Tour de Connecticut was the same pleasant ro...

Not in New Hartford,  in regular Hartford. The Tim Johnson Ride on Washington rode through Hartford yesterday evening and this mornin...

*** Updated 4/23 with Burnside Ave info session details. *** Ha!  Didn't think you'd read a post with such a purposefully confusin...