Week in Review (September 24 - September 30)

Tuesday (19,474 steps) - Strength class during lunch. Milk Market run club (although I was still just walking).

Pretty excited that the theme of this one was Taco Tuesday and we had an amazing taco bar waiting for us.

Wednesday (15,315 steps) - Core class during lunch. Runners Roost Boulder! As much as I wanted to run on the trails, Ariel and I stuck to the road and did a run/walk (although by the end we were running more than walking) on the 5K route.

Mac n' Cheese 5K had a booth at the store and we got to enjoy some of the cheesiest mac I've ever had. Delicious!

Thursday (15,380 steps) - Berkeley Park! Since it was Hoktoberfest, Hoka was there and I demoed some new shoes. Raymond did not want to look at the camera.

Ariel and I opted to walk around the lake.

Then I boldly participated in the Hoktoberfest mile after. I'm surprised I was able to run so much.

Friday (13,349 steps) - Core class during lunch. Took A shopping to get new shoes.
Saturday (20,876 steps) - Drove up to Jones Pass for a hike! It was super foggy when we started, but ended up being a really pretty day! On the way down, I realized we had missed a switchback that we've taken previously, so I'm not actually sure what our full hike was.

Finally had time to stop at the brewery in Emprie before we met up with Ben at work and A got to go inside!

Then onto Angry James and pizza for dinner.
Sunday (13,519 steps) - Slept in! Ben picked Booth Falls in Vail for our hike for the day, and boy was it gorgeous! I have not seen fall colors like that in ages! Took a zillion pictures.

Outer Range & Qdoba.
Monday (12,442 steps) - Early drive to Denver, although there was no traffic. Grocery shopping & exchanging yet another viola for A.

Stats:

• 110,355 steps
• About 4 miles run (but hiking & walking!)
• Three gym classes

Week in Review (September 19 - September 25)

Tuesday (10,024 steps) - Barre with Sasha.
Wednesday (20,994 steps) - Lakewood Trail Series! This week was the big kahuna - 7ish miles, including the climb up Mt. Carbon. Forever, I've been thinking that I ran this last year and it was no big deal, that I finished before it got dark, etc. Turns out, I ran the short course last year. I totally made up a fake memory. A was running the short course with Laurie and I headed out with the goal to keep the pace easy-ish. No walk breaks until Mt. Carbon climb. The most interesting part of the run was when a snake slithered between my feet when I was walking up the hill. I didn't even have time to be startled.

Another small bit of walking between miles 3 and 4. We ran a section of the park that I had never been in before and I felt pretty good the last few miles.

Ended up running the 7 miles in about 1:20, which is pretty darn good, considering Mt. Carbon (and I wasn't even last). It was dark within 10 minutes of finishing, and we all scattered instead of hanging out after like previous weeks.

Garmin time - 1:21:04

Garmin distance - 7.01 miles

Elevation gain - 531'

Mile 1 - 11:21

Mile 2 - 11:57

Mile 3 - 12:07

Mile 4 - 12:51

Mile 5 - 10:53

Mile 6 - 11:30

Mile 7 - 10:21

Thursday (11,272 steps) - Another week at Berkeley Park Running Company. We got there super early again, although this was the perfect week for it as it was Hokatoberfest! A decided that she was tired from GOTR so she didn't want to run. I wasn't GOING to run, but then I decided to just run around the Rocky Mountain Lake. Managed to clock my two fastest miles in like a hundred years. After the run it was great times hanging out with friends, eating brats and drinking beer. They've got a pretty fun run club!

Passing around the blond braids was apparently a "thing." Who wore it better? Phil or A? Ha!
Friday (9,774 steps) - Barre with Kelly.
Saturday (27,588 steps) - Snow Mountain Ranch half marathon.

We left Snow Mountain Ranch and drove into Winter Park to Deno's for "brunch," which really meant a beer and sharing a sandwich with A. Michelle and her husband Scott joined us, and it was a great time to sit and chat (out of the cold wind). After Kristen dropped us off at home, we literally did nothing the rest of the day.
Sunday (5,023 steps) - I actually managed to stay in bed until NINE. NINE. A made us breakfast and I did laundry. We watched TV all day until 3:30, when we went to barre.

Can you spot us?

We met Heather, Beth and Mo for class, then headed over to DBC for pumpkin beer! It was cold and misty all day long, so perfect day to (practically) do nothing.

Don't worry, she has root beer

Monday (7,607 steps) - EXHAUSTED. Clearly not from actually DOING anything. The cold front is officially here and it was a blah day. I went out briefly at lunch to get a new phone (which turned out to be a giant pain as apparently my most recent backup was corrupt). Other than that, nada. A decided we should skip our group run because it was cold and rainy. No complaints here, we enjoyed a night at home.

Stats:

• 92,282 steps (least ever, I think)
• 21.8 miles run
• 3(!) barre classes (and first weekend one in a while)