Bike Leans - Directions, MASH Style

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You’ve seen this bike before. Remember the Love Locks from a couple weeks ago? This is the same bike, a loaner bike from Project Hero while Agent Gravel was being worked on. This photo is Downtown Denver, and I vividly remember the day I took it. Man, do I remember. I was riding with a Project Hero brother. It was a nice, hot 95-ish degrees, and we explored a trail neither of us had been on before. I had already ridden about an hour before I hooked up with him. This trail, it turned out, has no water source along the way. Not even a convenience store. Long story short, I drank the amount of water I would drink in 2 hours on a four and a half hour ride (and no electrolytes.) We ended up at the Denver VA, where I slugged down a bottle of cold water. I don’t think I have to tell you what happened next. The VA doesn’t mess around. I was in the ER within about 60 seconds. Long story short, they had to put two bags of saline into me before they could discharge me. My point with all of this is just to remind you to stay hydrated. Even with the cooler weather on the way, make sure you are drinking plenty of water. And some electrolytes, if you can. Dehydration doesn’t play around. Link is to a University of Kansas Health System short video about the effects of dehydration: