Last Saturday the Wife and I rode our bikes approximately 35 miles around downtown Denver, a trip punctuated at various intervals with, in order: a paperboy route, "significant other piggyback polo", "Shipwreck Falls" water ride at Elitch Gardens amusement park, piecing together a puzzle made out of large segments of carpet, "human bowling" via "skateboard sledding", and riding giant rubber duckies across the vast expanse of a swimming pool. This was Denver's version of Urban Assault, a yearly event that occurs in about 10 cities across the country. It's cause celebre is to promote biking in urban areas, but really it's just an excuse to have a lot of fun and drink free beer once you are done riding a route of your choosing that must include eight different checkpoints before heading back to the start for a grand party and a chance at raffle prizes (run-on sentence duly noted, but I'm not going to revise it so deal). Some of us got a nice sunburn (hint - it was not me), but a great time was had by all and we certainly intend to do this again pending our location next year.
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