| January 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 3 January | 3 miles | 13 inches of snow; couldn't stay on bike; turned around & walked bike home |
| 10 January | 19 miles | Waterton Canyon; a very muddy mess |
| 17 January | 34 miles | Chatfield Reservoir; cold and windy |
| 19 January | 33 miles | Chatfield; pleasant but cold |
| February 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 7 Feb | 28 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 10 Feb | 13 miles | half commute (still too much construction for full commute |
| 13 Feb | 13 miles | half commute |
| 14 Feb | 31 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| March 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 7 March | 26 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 14 March | 36 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 16 March | 13 miles | half commute |
| 21 March | 21 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 28 March | 56 miles | nearly all the way downtown to check commute route; full route should be open by end of April |
| April 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 4 April | 43 miles | Deer Creek Canyon, all the way to the top!!! |
| 5 April | 30 miles | to the pink trees for photos (trees aren't pink yet) |
| 11 April | 37 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 12 April | 29 miles | to the pink trees for photos |
| 25 April | 24 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 30 April | 27 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| May 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 2 May | 31 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 9 May | 37 miles | Colorado National Monument, same as Day 1 of RtR!!! |
| 13 May | 31 miles | full morning commute |
| 14 May | 12 miles | Waterton Canyon right before a storm that chased us back down |
| 17 May | 80 miles | Santa Fe Century |
| 23 May | 9 miles | Loop C, chased home by lightning |
| 24 May | 8 miles | Garden of the Gods |
| 25 May | 28 miles | Deer Creek Canyon |
| 30 May | 23 miles | Vail Pass; all the way to the top, first time ever on first attempt of season !!!!! |
| 31 May | 20 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| June 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 1 June | 30 miles | full morning commute |
| 2 June | 30 miles | full morning commute |
| 6 June | 9 miles | Air Force Academy |
| 7 June | 62 miles | Elephant Rock |
| 9 June | 15 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 14 June | 49.5 Miles | RtR Day 1, Colorado National Monument |
| 15 June | 100.0 miles | RtR Day 2, Grand Junction to Hotchkiss, Grand Mesa, my third century ever! |
| 16 June | 62 of 79 Miles | RtR Day 3, Hotchkiss to Gunnison, Black Canyon of the Gunnison |
| 17 June | 27 miles | RtR Day 4, Gunnison to Crested Butte |
| 18 June | 77 of 102 miles | RtR Day 5, Crested Butte to Salida, Cottonwood Pass |
| 19 June | 67 miles | RtR Day 6, Salida to Canon City, Royal Gorge |
| 20 June | 49 miles | RtR Day 7, Canon City to Westcliffe, Hardscrabble Pass |
| 27 June | 62 miles | MS-150 Day 1; still have saddle sores from Ride the Rockies |
| 28 June | 62 miles | MS-150 Day 2 |
| July 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 4 July | 22 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 17 July | 1.5 miles | Riding in the dark with my 6-year-old neighbor who rode two wheels for the very first time!!! |
| 18 July | 8 miles | Pearl Pass; first time since RtR saddle sores haven't bothered me |
| 25 July | 10 miles | Lead King Basin; we rode from Marble to Crystal Mill!!! |
| 26 July | 6 miles | Ohio Pass; we did as much of RtR's Dirty Thirty (didn't get to do in June due to road conditions) as we could before lightning. Made it to summit! |
| 30 July | 14 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| August 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 15 August | 24 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 18 August | 13.5 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 20 August | 8 miles | Riding in the neighborhood in the dark with my 6-year-old neighbor and her new bike lights! (Power outage.) |
| 21 August | 13.5 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 22 August | 24 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 24 August | 13 miles | Waterton Canyon |
| 28 August | 10 miles | Chatfield trails because Waterton is closed due to bear activity (and ignorant paparazzi doing selfies with the bears). |
| 30 August | 2 miles | In the dark with my 6-year-old neighbor! |
| September 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 2 September | 10 miles | Chatfield trails |
| 5 September | 23 miles | Chatfield and trails |
| 13 September | 5 miles | Colter Bay |
| 14 September | 23 miles | Signal Mountain to Jenny Lake and back |
| 19 September | 30 miles | Chatfield and trails |
| October 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 10 October | 24 miles | Chatfield and trails; some excellent climbs on various dirt roads. |
| 17 October | 4 miles | Boreas Pass; thunderstorm moved in; forced to abandon attempt |
| 24 October | 11 miles | Boreas Pass; snowy, muddy, icy, cold, 100% fun |
| 25 October | 1 mile | checking out Halloween lights in the neighborhood with a certain little 6-year-old |
| 30 October | 7.5 miles | Waterton Canyon opens again!!! We walked up because it was raining and muddy. Neverthless, YIPPEE!!!!! |
| November 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 1 November | 22 miles | Waterton Canyon... WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!! |
| 7 November | 27 miles | Waterton |
| 8 November | 22 miles | Waterton |
| 14 November | 31 miles | Waterton |
| 15 November | 19 miles | Waterton |
| December 2015 |
| date | miles | comment |
| 31 December | no miles at all this month | Weather got us this month. I knew in July I wouldn't reach 3,000 this year, so I adjusted my 2015 goal to 2,000. I did 1,951 miles for the year, 420 miles better than last year, and I think that's pretty grand! |
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