JUNE is BOULDER’S WALK & BIKE MONTH!
60+ Free Events
6/2 – Circle Boulder by
Bicycle Ride
6/26 – 37th annual Bike to
Work Day
6/26 – NEW! Bike from Work Day
6/28 – Clips Beer and Film Tour
Register for free and see all events at: WalkandBikeMonth.org
REMINDER . . .
Biking to Manage Arthritis
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
“I wonder why my knees
feel so much better when I
finish a bike ride than when
I run?”
“Do you have arthritis?”
“Dunno – but my knees get
stiff. I don’t really have
pain, but I sure can feel
creaky, especially when I
stop running and sit for a
while. I walk like an old
lady when I first get up. Is
that arthritis?”
What is arthritis and how do you manage it?
Bicycles and Brains
Personally, I can go on and on about the benefits of cycling, and so can my family. “Mom is so much happier
This year, the B-360 ride on June 2 honors one of Boulder’s all-time best bike advocates, Leslie Bohm. Support this event while
celebrating summer. This is a fun, family event. See you there!
B-360
Circle Boulder by Bicycle Sunday June 2nd, 2013 Honoring Leslie Bohm
GREAT RIDES
This month the magazine 5280 features Tejay Van Garderen’s favorite rides around Boulder. Get psyched. Here’s one for a
beginner:
Neva Loop: This is a short (15 mile) relatively flat ride on farm roads north of Boulder. Click here for map (second map on page)
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after a ride to Jamestown; it’s a great time to hit her up for cash.”
If you Google the benefits
of cycling, they are
plentiful. For example, go
ahead, stop at Spruce
Confections on the way
home – you just burned
488 calories in an hour.
And, while you are
burning those calories
and getting stronger, you
can listen to the lovely
rush of water from the
Left Hand Canyon creek,
see amazing cliffs as you
reach Buckingham Park
and smell the pines.
Every sense is so alive
that your quads hardly
notice…. Okay, I got
carried away.
Even if the lovely surroundings can’t distract your from the “quad burn”, it’s great to be on your bike for so many reasons. Check out what cycling can do for a brain. A study currently underway is finding that kids with ADHD do much better on tests when they ride their bikes to school than when they are driven. Should every kid ride to school before the TCAPs?
If you saw The King’s Speech, you’ll remember how singing relieved stuttering for the King. Something similar happens for Parkinson’s patients when they ride a bike. A recent study of 26 patients with Parkinson’s disease found improvements in brain connectivity after an 8-week stationary biking program. Those who cycled hardest had the biggest changes. And although no one knows how cycling will change the course of Parkinson’s disease, the fact that something improves is undeniable.
