Because Being Ordinary Is Boring: October 2025

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Week in Review (September 23 to September 29)

Tuesday (11,850 steps) - Peloton ride and walked Olive before going to work in the office.

It was a rainy and crap commute into the city. Went to the gym at lunch and did a strength video and a couple miles of fast walking at 7-9% incline. After work I walked Olive, STILL in the rain. Ben brought home pizza for dinner. Caught up on Wednesday.

Wednesday (13,158 steps) - Olive walk before going to work in the office. Went for a run at lunch. Since I have another "flat" race coming up, I did intervals, which makes running go so much better!

Did a lower body video before going back to work. Home for a walk with Olive. Stir fry for dinner and Wednesday!

Thursday (16,148 steps) - Work from home. Took Olive for a walk, went for an interval run, another Olive walk and then a chest/back video.

Had to go to Costco to put air in my tires and then we went to Torchy's for dinner. Yes, even though it was our five year wedding anniversary, we still chose to go down the street for queso and tacos.

Watched the remake of Naked Gun and an episode of Wednesday. Surprise visit from Ariel before we went to bed.

Friday (16,219 steps) - Wash Park with Olive and the gang! Ended up being really busy in the morning at work because I had missed a huge stack of work Joyce had left for me while I was in Canada. Took Olive for a walk at lunch. Left early to finish the day at home so we could get everything packed up for camping! Unfortunately, Ben didn't get off early, but we still got out before 5:30 and met Lee at Outer Range at 7:30.

Headed to Safeway to pick up food and decided to just have snacks for dinner.

Saturday (16,491 steps) - It was COLD when we got up - frost on our chairs! We had coffee and then headed to Vail to do the "traditional" Berry Picker hike. GORGEOUS.

We had a beer at the summit and then took the gondola down. We were starving, so hit up Garfinkel's for lunch.

We headed back down to Frisco and met up with Lee again at Outer Range. We did get back to our campsite before dark this time. Since we were pretty full from a big, late lunch we just had snacks for dinner again. Both exhausted, we went to bed really early.

Sunday (15,410 steps) - I wanted to do another activity before we had to head back to town, and the North Ten Mile trail is always nice. Not too crazy and lots of water access for Olive.

After we finished we headed back to the campsite so we could get everything loaded up. Traffic still didn't look terrible, so we stopped at Outer Range before heading out. Olive was exhausted after the weekend!

Traffic wasn't great on the way down, but we have certainly sat through worse. Stopped at Parry's for dinner. Once we finally got home we had to unpack the camper and then watched more Wednesday.

Monday (10,331 steps) - Work from home, thankfully. I had thought about running but never felt like it. Took Olive for a walk at lunch and finally saw an owl again.