Outdoor Issue

August 25, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

Is it any wonder that Colorado Junior Crew — coached by seasoned rowers Lisa Dirth, Tyler Romero, Peter Graca and Nikolas Huebler — is growing fast, from 20 kids when it started in 2007 to 56 today

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Watts the Future of Bicycling?

June 16, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

And there I was, in my usual bike-riding outfit: Dockers, a crumpled J. Crew shirt and clunky hiking boots, as aerodynamic as a hippopotamus on a skateboard. My demeanor screamed, "I am impressed with the all-you-can-eat crab legs at the…

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The Velodrome is sweet. And…what is that, exactly?

May 18, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

There are only 28 in the whole country. The one in Erie, just a ten-minute bike ride from downtown, looks, as they all do, like a giant salsa dipping platter, or a giant upside down cowboy hat, or a high-school…

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Timing Your Exercise with an App is App-auling

April 21, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

Humans used to stay fit because they wandered outside when the weather was pleasant and didn't return home til they were tired. Those days are as dead as the Neanderthals; now, we exercise with purpose, the way we build canals…

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Dance As Exercise – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Hips

March 21, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

Dance is an ancient art, the rhythmic expression of humanity’s deepest grace. For some, like Martha Graham, Gene Kelly and Rhianna, dance floats them above the hard Earth, toward flight. For others, not so much. My dance style has…

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If You Live Near the Mountains, You’re Probably Healthy

February 15, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

If you’re reading this, you’re probably healthy. Yellow Scene is for folks who live north of Denver, near the mountains, and data suggests a correlation between mountains and fitness.

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Slip sliding away – Ice as metaphor

January 7, 2016 Like 0 Reilly Capps

You can't beat ice, even if you try. No one can. Magnesium chloride -- which CDOT scatters on the roads -- might dent the ice a little, but it also rots cars' finishes. Gravel gives you purchase, but then clogs…

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When It Comes to Recreation, Don’t Let Winter Win

December 2, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

Nature brings winter without considering your love of summer: that your calves look svelte in flip-flops, that barbecued burgers taste best, or that you were enjoying a summer of rock climbing, swimming and archery.

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Field of Dreams of a Pastoral Past

October 21, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

It used to be that summer was my only season for outdoors activities.

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Exercising to Let off Steam: Can it Burn You?

September 28, 2015 Like 0 Reilly Capps

By many objective standards, life in the Yellow Scene distribution area is pure sunshine and rainbows: pretty hills, affordable weed, and that McDonald’s breakfast sandwich where the bun is a syrup-soaked pancake.