Week in Review (May 6-12)

Tuesday (13,943 steps) - Peloton and Olive walk before going to work. StairMaster and strength training at lunch.

Another walk with Olive after work. Handmaid's Tale.

Wednesday (21,715 steps) - With Olive being home and it raining I opted to skip walking Olive before going to work. After work I headed to Dinosaur Ridge since I had a hill workout to do and all the trails were too saturated to run on. I walked for probably the first 15 minutes of my warm up and ran the rest. Might have been the first time I've ever run up the full Rooney Road side of the road! Was pretty happy about that. 

Took Olive for a short walk after getting home. Parks and Rec?

Thursday (11,633 steps) - Work from home. Did a Peloton ride and then took Olive for a long walk. Ariel had a dentist appointment and wanted me to go with her. I was easily convinced since there is a Ziggi's in the parking lot and I got my free birthday drink!

Pilates video and some driving after work. Took Olive for a walk after all that.

Criminal Minds!

Friday (17,536 steps) - Walked Olive before going to work. Ariel was supposed to be home during the day and then going to work in the evening, but she got called in so I had to rush home right after I got off to walk Olive. We are still in need of new things to watch so we found a movie, "Wild Robot" - and we both really liked it.

Saturday (27,803 steps) - Drove up to Louisville to meet Terri at her house so we could carpool to Bobcat for our long run. I had a vert goal of at least 2000' of gain, and this was Terri's suggestion for a way to get it. We planned out a longer loop than the last time we were in the area, and going in the reverse direction. The first few miles were ALL up and it was pretty warm and sunny.

When we finally got to the top of the ridge and the below sign, we stopped for a brief snack break.

Once we were more on the saddle/ridge it was more runnable. We were blessed to have a slight breeze and we were all in a great mood at this point (especially since we had done so much of the climbing already).

We came to a trail junction and going one way had all sorts of signage (that I can't believe I didn't get a picture of) that suggested imminent death, so of course we opted to go the more tame way. Not more than a few minutes down the trail and Terri had a decently bad fall, ripping up her left knee pretty badly.

Once we got to the split at the Power Line trail, she opted to go back to the car so that she could get cleaned up. Larry, Ben and I kept going. It was quite a nice descent down some fairly smooth switchbacks, before we ended up on the lower loop trail. Larry had us convinced it was going to be a 13 mile loop, so Ben and I were super happy when we got closer to the car and it was only about 11 miles. I hadn't quite hit my vert, so I went back up the way we started until I hit my number (and happened to run into Terri, who was passing time waiting for us). We of course went to Berthoud Brewing after (since Larry and Terri are in the mug club AND they have delicious pizza).

After lunch we headed back towards the city, dropping of Larry and then a quick stop at Crystal Springs for their anniversary party before heading home. 

Sunday (18,151 steps) - Originally Terri had plans to join us for our morning run, but she canceled last minute. We got out of the house a bit later than planned for our run in Boulder. There were a zillion people out and we got one of the last parking spots at the trail head we like. Pretty early on we both realized that we didn't feel great (sore and tired from the Bobcat run) and this was going to be a long morning. 

Lots of pretty flowers out, including TONS of irises, which I don't ever remember seeing on this trail before.

I thought the run was going to be about 8 miles, so we were INCREDIBLY happy that it ended up being less than 7. I was just NOT into this one at all. Let Ariel know that we were finished and headed to 4 Noses. We had one beer before carpooling to Deidre's house for Mother's Day breakfast burritos. Always good to see them! Headed back to 4 Noses for the succulent workshop - I think I did great (with lots of help from Ariel and the lady hosted the workshop).

And the pretty flowers that Ariel got me:

Nice, quiet evening at home.  We sat on the front patio and had some pasta for dinner. Parks & Rec?

Monday (23,274 steps) - Work from home. Went for my run pretty early since it was supposed to be really hot. Normally, I turn my watch on to connect to gps before I leave the house so as soon as I leave the driveway I start my run. I missed a step on this one and accidentally didn't start my watch until I was almost to the park. Ugh. I had 75 minutes on schedule and since it's been so hot I ran the south side of the lake. Run itself wasn't bad. I did walk up the last part of the big hill, but otherwise ran the whole time - a big step up from how awful running had been on Sunday. Did some work and some laundry. After the second load of laundry we had some excitement. The basin wasn't draining. Ariel and I tried to do some troubleshooting, but basically we had to drain using the emergency water release, which the first time I did that water sprayed out pretty far, Ariel figured out how to release the water more slowly. Ugh. Took Olive for her walk. They are finally closing the lower single track after all the damage people have done to it since Covid. (Personally, I think this should have been done ages ago).

Did some driving after work. Pizza for dinner?

Stats:

• 134,055 steps
• 29.93 miles run
• 18.62 miles walked
• 55 minutes of cardio
• 50 minutes of strength