My BHAG: To ride all the epic rides!
Current Status: I do most of my rolling (in less than epic fashion) around Percy/Edwin Warner Parks and the Nashville Greenway System these days. Been doing less biking lately and more walking/hiking. Next up is his/her bikes so Emily and I can hit the roads and explore!
Deano’s Most Bumpin’ Bike Rides
I’ve ridden a little over 7,250 miles since 2011…my favorite rides? Force ranked? OK!
If you want to follow along and keep track of my rides (and vice versa) let’s link up on Strava (https://www.strava.com/athletes/19668663). If it ain’t on Strava it didn’t happen! Better yet if you want to go for a ride together let me know and I’ll try to keep up with you!
Biking Related Posts
Getting Back To Biking
I’ve been doing lots of hiking and weight training over the past few years. I haven’t been doing much biking. I want to change that this year. I watched Tour de France: Unchained and it made me realize I missed riding. I might even hit the road for some overnight bikepacking trips before the year…
Music City Bikeway REDUX (Nashville Tennessee’s Best Bike Ride)
The last time I did this ride (with Preston) I was untrained and “bulking” and surrendered a few miles from the finish line. I recently tried it again. REDUX! I was still untrained but I’d dropped about 20 pounds. I finished it with ease. Then, recently, I did it again with Max (his first time).…
Biking Music City Bikeway + Centennial Park + TN Bicentennial Mall
The Music City Bikeway is my favorite bike ride in the area. It had been a few years since I’d been biking on it and it called me. The last time I rode it I’d ridden my bike 1,500 miles that year. This time I’d ridden my bike 55 miles prior to riding the 33-mile…
Percy Warner Park – My Favorite Park In Nashville, TN
Nashville is my favorite city in America because I believe it has one of the best park systems in the nation! Change my mind! Emily and I have hit all/most of these over the years. Our favorites are Percy Warner Park, Edwin Warner Park, Radnor Lake, and Beaman Park. If I had to pick an…
First Bikepacking Trip – Land Between The Lakes
I’ve never gone bikepacking but wanted to give it a try. I’d spent a good part of the winter learning about it. Max decided he’d go with me (his first time too). For my first bikepacking trip we went up to Land Between The Lakes to ride on the 28-mile North-South Trace: Canton Road to…
Getting Ready For My First Bikepacking Trip
I’d spent a bunch of time during the winter months learning about bikepacking. With my first trip planned and fast approaching it was time to get everything together. I had not been doing as much bicycling as I have in the past so I needed to get my body ready for the trip (and not…
Henry Horton State Park – Kayaking the Duck River (AKA The Dirty Duck) – Chapel Hill, TN
We visited Henry Horton State Park, near Chapel Hill, TN. Our main goal was to kayak on the Duck River (which runs right through the state park). We soon learned the locals call it the Dirty Duck…even though it isn’t dirty at all?!? Weird?!?. We also explored the Tennessee humidity on bikes (as well as…
Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail (Ashland City, TN) – Biking
We rode bikes on the Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail. It is just up River Road in Ashland City, TN. It is a rails to trails conversion that runs alongside the Cumberland River with an awesome bridge. Oh…and I almost lost my drone (because I didn’t check the wind conditions). That was a fun near heart…
Montgomery Bell Park State Park
We went to Montgomery Bell State Park to hike and bike. The boys joined us. We biked on a few of the trails on the extensive mountain bike trail network. We hiked to all three of the lakes on the 3700-acre property. We also saw all the iron ore pits from when was mining was…
Biking Fall Creek Falls State Park
We ditched the car to explore the Scenic Road Loop of Fall Creek Falls State Park via bike. Biking is better than driving…always!
Breckenridge, Colorado – Summer Fun (Ziplining and Mountain Biking)
We visited Breckenridge, Colorado for a few days back in the Summer of 2018. The boys and the girls ziplined on a stunning course. The boys did some mountain biking. This was the easy kind of biking. It was all downhill without all the annoying sweating and panting involved in pedaling up the mountain. Pops…
Edwin Warner Park – My 2nd Favorite Park In Nashville, TN
I love the Warner Park system (Edwin and Percy). I have chosen my last two homes based on proximity to these parks. We recently moved to Bellevue and now live closer to Edwin Warner Park. We spend a ton of time in this park hiking and biking. Edwin Warner Park is my 2nd Favorite Park…
Summer Fun In Park City, Utah
We visited Park City, Utah for a few days (last Summer). We checked a lot of boxes from our cabin in the mountains. We did tourist activities at the Utah Olympic Park (where we saw cool athletes fly through the air). We visited Park City Mountain (where we did the alpine slide, zip line, and…
We Went Survival Camping!
Was Max’s Red Rider BB Gun able to keep us alive? One of my favorite television shows is Alone. It pits man against nature one on one. The Dean Men decided that we would test our abilities and go out into the wild to test our mettle! We prep our gear, shoot guns, ride bikes,…
Spring Break 2020 In Vero Beach (Coronavirus Edition)
We’ve spent many Spring Breaks in Vero Beach over 14 years. See what makes this our #4 Florida city (out of the 14 we’ve spent time in)! Video is rated PG-13 (at least)?!?! We braved the Coronavirus this year and went to Vero Beach, Florida for our Spring Break. We’ve spent Spring Break (and other…
My 8 Year Fitness Journey
Several years ago, as I was approaching the Big 4-0 I realized I needed to make some changes. All my fitness measures were as bad as they had ever been in my life and going in the wrong direction. So, my Fitness Journey began! After some fits and starts and 8 years later I am…
So Many Miles On The Harpeth River Greenway!
I have ridden so many miles on the Harpeth River Greenway. It is #7 on my favorite Nashville park list but it isn’t really a park at all; it’s a greenway. It is an awesome one too. It runs along the Harpeth River from Edwin Warner Park out to Bellevue. I ride my bike on…
Biking Update (2019)
When I was a kid my absolute favorite thing to do was ride my bike. I started off with a Huffy with a banana seat. Next up was a BMX dirt bike. We set up ramps of extremely perilous nature in the neighborhood and tested the limits of the earth’s gravitational pull. Ramps at the…
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