Photo by Ryan Korzyniowski

After spending 30+ hours in the 1st City team van with Keith Deluca, on our way to and from Cyclocross Nationals in Reno, NV, I could have probably built this playlist myself but I figured I should let him have his fun. Keith races mtb and cross for the 1st Cycling Team and does stuff in a Biochemistry lab at CSU.

Favorite bike? Toss up between my cruiser (fixie with baskets and cruiser bars) and my MTB ( Specialized Epic). Both keep me smiling, regardless of where I’m riding. 

Favorite ride? I don’t get to do it more than once a year, but the touch’em “all” ride I started doing a while back. I try and ride most of the single track within Coyote Ridge, Backbone, Bobcat Ridge, Horsetooth and Lory State Park. It finishes by going over the dams. It’s a long ride but it reminds me of how lucky we are living here in FoCo.
“What would you say you do here”? 
I work at CSU where my wife and I run a lab in the Biochemistry Dept. Let’s be clear, it’s my wife’s lab, I just run around looking busy. Honestly though, it’s pretty great. We both have been doing cell biology all our adult lives and now we get the chance to do research and train students in our exciting field of mitosis…. I spend a lot of my time behind the microscope.
When do you listen to these? We’re fortunate in that we can listen to music in the lab, so these tunes are played throughout the day. The “kids” in the lab keep Pandora flush with new artists and luckily we all enjoy a broad spectrum of music (all but country music gets played, we have our limits). The selected songs I chose reflect that wide range of music, good for gettin pumped, single track riding or road trippin.

Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

Much like New Belgium Brewing, the Rio is synonymous with Fort Collins cycling. Patrick McGaughran, the owner of all five Colorado Rios opened the first restaurant here in Fort Collins in 1986. He first sponsored an elite road team in 1999. His title sponsorship of that team continues nearly 25 years later and has catapulted riders like Tejay van Garderen, Chad Haga and Mara Abbot into the World Tour. In addition to the elite road team, Pat has advertised on YGR since 2009 (my second…

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