no - I haven't made it over the mountains yet on the bike. I've ridden to Belen, Los Lunas and this weekend Bernalillo. There's an 80 mile ride going through the Manzanos that involves 6400' of climbing which I may yet tackle this year and I want to ride the Sandia Ski Basin sometime too. I'm figuring those rides aren't going to go anywhere if I don't make them right away!
and like I said - I do all my rides alone. I have 3 friends that ride with me every once in a very rare while and they usually bring their kids on trail-a-bikes so I consider those recovery rides! LOL
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: "Yeah Baby! What a Ride!"