Week in Review (October 28 - November 3)

Tuesday (12,984 steps) - Peloton and a very cold Olive walk before going to work in the office. Long gym session at lunch of StairMaster, strength and a brisk walk. 

Work was insane the whole day. When I got home it seemed sunny and warmer so I opted to take Olive for a longer walk to the lake since it was still light out - spoiler, it was not as warm as I thought. 

After dinner we watched the Werewolf of Snow Hollow - a little cheesy, but a decent Halloween movie. The quest for another scary movie continues!

Wednesday (17,615 steps) - Awoke to very cold temperatures, so I guess the heat goes on. Took Olive for another very chilly walk before going to work. I took my lunch break early so I could get my workout in - a not-so-horrible tempo run. 

Had a lunch meeting during work. Took Olive for a walk after work. Dinner and House of Dynamite. It was a good movie but the ending was a huge disappointment!

Thursday (12,218 steps)  - Peloton before work at home. Took Olive for a long walk to the lake at lunch. Barre video in the afternoon and did one delivery before heading down to Belmar with Olive for "walk" club. It was great to see everyone! 

Colfax was adorable dressed as Dumbledore

Winning costume was Harry & Lloyd with the dog dressed as a Hooter (Icelandic snowy owl) 

Rushed home to drop Olive off before Ben and I headed to Torchy's for our usual dinner - even though it was late. ALMOST finished Dark Wolf, but we had to stop when Ben dozed off during the final few scenes. 

Friday (13,218 steps) - Skipped the morning walk with the gang but took Olive for a walk around the neighborhood.

Headed into the office all dressed up for Halloween. Took Olive for a walk at lunch and then we had to do the Halloween parade through the office - which was a little silly since hardly anyone works on Fridays. 

Took Olive home, did a delivery and then met Ben at 4 Noses. Actually had one beer (just 6 oz) before heading home for dinner, which Ben ordered in from Cupbop - which was DELICIOUS. 

We watched "Vicious" - which was a very strange movie.

Saturday (25,319 steps) - Up early to head down to Belmar again to run with Runners Edge! The route was 7 miles, and that is all we planned on doing. We did the first mile or two solo and then joined Alison. 

Eventually we had Janet and Kristin with us, so it was fun to run with a bigger group again. Ben's foot started to hurt pretty bad the last mile, so I left him to finish the loop and then went back to get him. Ariel met us at the store to visit with people before we went to brunch together. We chose to go to Danny's. We hadn't been since they moved to their new location - what a difference! So much more space and we were able to get seated right away. 

We then went to Dutch on the way home. Took Olive for a walk to the lake. I took a shower and read my book before going out to drive for a few hours since they were running a promotion for bonuses on deliveries. There was an event happening at the new Toyota location in Wheat Ridge, so we grabbed Olive and went over there for a few hours. It was complete chaos. 

This coffee truck cracked me up

Everyone LOVED Olive!

For dinner we stopped at Parry's to get food to go. Watched "The Ward."

Sunday (25,018 steps) - And the first day of daylight savings had us up at six. UGH. Took Olive for a walk and then went solo for my run up in Broomfield. The run itself wasn't horrible, but there was a trail detour that gave me an extra 2/3 of a mile that I wasn't happy about. 

Met Ben at 4 Noses for a  NA and a Topo since it was warm out. Unfortunately, it was also windy, so we didn't stay too long. Ben picked up a Costco pizza (food court has FINALLY reopened after MONTHS) and we went home and put on our pjs at 2 in the afternoon! First, we watched "Blink Twice." I took Olive for a walk and then we also watched "The Devil Below" and finished the last episode of Dark Wolf.

Monday (17,835 steps) - Work from home. Thanks to the time change I was up more than an hour before I needed to be. I started organizing some of my clothes, did laundry and started to gather things for my next adventure. Took Olive for a walk and then went out for my run. Run thankfully wasn't bad. 

Did a few deliveries on my way to meet Ben at Costco for the week's groceries. 

This is at like 5 pm :(

Put dinner in the oven and took Olive for another walk. We started a new series, FBI: Most Wanted.

Stats:

• 124,207 steps
• 25.52 miles run
• 16.19 miles walked
• 55 minutes of cardio
• 45 minutes of strength

Week in Review (November 28 - December 4)

Tuesday (14,729 steps) - Peloton rides before work. Had another glitchy where I couldn't get the video I wanted to do to play. I don't have any updates so not sure what the issue is. Walked quite a bit on the treadmill during the day and did an upper body video at lunch. I definitely will be sore from this one. It was also... Spotify unwrapped day!

Definitely surprised that all my top songs were country!

Not as surprised about the top artists, except for Pink Floyd, which I didn't think I listened to nearly as much this year. ALSO exciting is there is finally info on Candice's new 300+ mile race. This is gonna be "fun"

AND, I got a cute new nameplate at work, haha

Took Olive for a walk before Ariel and I headed to the school for a meeting about her upcoming trip to France. We met Ben at Buffalo Wild Wings to celebrate A getting into the Colorado School of Mines. 

Wednesday (21,626 steps) - Work in the office. More treadmill desk while working, read my book at lunch. Headed up to Louisville to get my speed work done. Workout wasn't nearly as bad as I feared, although I ended up running longer than planned because I misjudged the distance of the area I was running. 

Nice night and I stayed at the store for a bit socializing. 

Thursday (20,571 steps) - Work from home. Went for an easy 45 minute run at lunch (which actually felt pretty easy). Took Olive for a walk. And in OTHER running excitement, Summit 200 finally (publicly) release a screenshot of the course. Wooo! 

Convinced Ariel to join me in Belmar for run club. Not a lot of people there, unfortunately, and it was chilly walking with Mo and Colfax. 

Friday (14,656 steps) - Wash Park - with special guest, Olive! New holiday drink menu at Stella's. Yum!

Joyce was going to be on vacation and Nicole thought it would be fun to bring her into the office, so she got a long walk before we went in. Olive enjoyed walking around and saying hi to everyone. She was so well-behaved! 

And I finally got my yoga ball to put on my treadmill so I don't have to keep moving it. I still have my regular chair, but this is going to be a game changer. 

We went for a walk with Nicole late morning. Headed home to work the rest of the day remote. Lisa came to pick me up to go to Colorado Springs. A group of us signed up to run a Saturday morning race and decided to get a hotel the night before. We got to packet pick up in the Springs around 4:30. Everyone else arrived shortly thereafter. We were all hungry and decided to go to BJ's for dinner since it was close. I got my trusty jalapeno cheeseburger. Delicious!

Alison and Janet were sharing a birthday weekend, and Janet had made delicious cupcakes for us to have after dinner. Yum!

No picture of all of us, which is a shame. By this time it was "late" so we went to the hotel. Lisa had booked a suite for me, her and Christina to share. I got my own room (yay!!!). We stayed up chatting until maybe 9:30. I had a bit of trouble falling asleep - I blame that on the room being much warmer than I normally sleep in.

Saturday (29,146 steps) - Colorado Cold Rush half marathon - recap separate.

We decided we would just head right back to Denver after everyone had finished. Once I got home I took a quick shower and then we went to Torchy's so I could finally get something to eat. Instead of starting with Fargo, we rented a movie - "The Fall" - WAY different than I expected, and it was pretty good! 

Sunday (18,918 steps) - I had an hour recovery run on schedule, which I was dreading. I had actually "raced" (versus just running like I normally do) and I was pretty sore. We did a loop that was semi dirt and paved. The paved was actually worse since it hadn't been plowed yet.

I was definitely tired during this and it felt like a massive effort. Really happy to be done with it. Took Olive for a walk. We then had a busy afternoon - first we had to go to Costco for groceries. We then went to 4 Noses so Ben could get a beer (I'm still not drinking for a bit, so I just had a Topo) before going to Target. So many errands, but we needed our sport laundry detergent and of course ended up with a bunch of other stuff we didn't need. Fargo.

Monday (20,343 steps) - Work from home. Olive spent a lot of time with me in the office, which she has been doing more and more lately.

Went out for my run and it was unfortunately really windy. I didn't feel horrible, but still pretty sore and tired from Saturday's race. In addition to the windy, the mud was actually pretty bad since it has warmed up since we got snow. 

Then I took Olive for a walk. Because of the mud I had encountered during my run, we did the "mud" route, which took us by this house that I normally only see on our really short night walks.

And another fun thing from Cocodona, they used me and Ben running through Buffalo Park in the start of their newest reel. 

Short dog walk with Ariel and more Fargo.

Stats:

• 139,989 steps
• 33.21 miles run
• 30 minutes of cardio
• 30 minutes of strength

Weeks in Review (April 25 - May 8)

Since I got behind with racing, I'm combining two weeks. I can barely remember anything anyway.

Tuesday 25th (11,395 steps) - Work in the office. Did a 20 minute upper body workout at lunch, and then walked on the treadmill and read more of my book. Working on packing - proving to be a nightmare.

With the course finally being finalized, I went through and made my miniature segment charts.

No idea what else. 

Wednesday 26th (11,570 steps) - Work in the office. Administrative Professional day! Got a gift card from the executive committee and they catered in a very nice lunch for us.

Headed up to Boulder with Olive after work because it was supposedly Sandy's last run club. She wasn't there, though. We had a nice walk around the lake though!

Thursday 27th (16,018 steps) - Work from home. Walk with Olive at lunch. Finally got all my drop bags ready to go! I took pictures of all of them, since I can never remember what I put in them.

Took Olive to Belmar and did some "running" but since it was just us, she wasn't super motivated. We did see horses though, which she found super interesting.

Friday 28th (11,565 steps) - Wash Park and coffee with the gang. Work in the office. Met Ben for a beer and was able to have a flight of Micheladas that was delicious.

Saturday 29th (15,041 steps) - A had (what she thought would be) her last meet of the season. Headed down to the stadium and got to watch her run. 

I had a 30 minute run on schedule, and I mapped out a route to do between events. The run was fine, although what I picked ended up having to be run on the shoulder as there were no sidewalks. It all worked out. Took Olive for a walk when I got home. Finished/finalized packing.

Sunday 30th (14,843 steps) - Up early for our flight! Ben took a Lyft to the house and Ariel drove us (what a kid, getting up at 5 am to do this!) Our flight was uneventful. I watched "The Whale" and it was a bit disappointing. No issues with our rental car, thankfully. We were both hungry, so I found a hole in the wall Mexican place and we got breakfast. 

I still had a walk on schedule, so I found a park/hill for us to get a walk in - and maybe some heat acclimation, since it was SO HOT. I was glad I had changed out of my flip flops, Ben was in his Crocs and didn't have a great time.

We went to Front Pourch for a beer and then went to the start to check in for the race and get my bib. 

Photo Cred: Scott Rokis

Checked in to the hotel and then went to Bobby Q's for dinner - and it was delicious! Stopped at the store for groceries. Actually went to bed early, but didn't end up sleeping great.

Monday 1st (114,001 steps) - Cocodona 250

Stats:

• 194,433 steps
• 54+miles run
• 0 minutes of cardio
• minutes of strength

Tuesday 2nd (122,394 steps) - Cocodona 250

Wednesday 3rd (110,548 steps) - Cocodona 250

Thursday 4th (104,898 steps) - Cocodona 250

Friday 5th (112,441 steps) - Cocodona 250

Saturday 6th (44,754 steps) - Cocodona 250. Well, we did it! 

Thankfully, we had booked at the Marriott right down the street. We found our drop bags and figured since it was still early morning and everyone was done, we would have some breakfast and shower, etc. We didn't bother cleaning up before heading to the buffet, which was pretty good. After showering, we made the mistake of "resting our eyes" and the next thing we knew it was hours later. We decided to go to the brewery for our post race celebrations. 

There was more napping, attempts at watching "Naked and Afraid," and dinner. 

Otherwise, who knows.

Sunday 7th (10,585 steps) - Somehow the morning got away from us. Between packing everything up, walking to get the most delicious smoothie ever, having breakfast, etc., before we knew it, it was time to drive back down to Phoenix so we could return the rental car and catch our flight. I had found a good brewery near-ish the airport. 

We also were able to get food from next door, so that was nice. Our flight was delayed a bit, but Ben upgraded and we got a seat in the 4th row. I think I watched Pitch Perfect again. Tyler picked us up at the airport, what a great friend!

Monday 8th (12,347 steps) - Work from home. I was trying to dig my way out after being out for a week, and also covering for Nicole. It was a CRAZY work day. Took Olive for a walk at lunch. Weather was nice enough to go to the lake, and she likes looking at ducks.

Unpacked, did laundry. Not sure of what else.

Stats:

• 517,967 steps
• 211 miles run
• 0 minutes of cardio
• 0 minutes of strength