Biking with Kathy Koch

Name: Kathy Koch

Live: Minneapolis

Job: Newborn intensive care nurse at University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.

Seen: Crossing the Martin Sabo Bridge on the way to an Anti-Tar-Sands Resistance March in St. Paul. Believes we need to stop destroying the planet, honor the earth, which is one reason she bikes.

Favorite Trail: The Midtown Greenway where she serves as a Trail Watch volunteer.

Bike: 1000 miles a year to and from work and on trail watch.

Worst ride ever: Many years ago, on a single speed bike from Blooming to New Prague, actually cried before it was done.

Gear: Civia Kingsfield belt driven.

Trail treat: Any nut dries fruit

Biking means: Sanity, relaxing after work, my happy place.

With $1,000: Would promote trails and infrastructure.

Goals: Be able to bike into my old age.