Because Being Ordinary Is Boring

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Week in Review (December 1 - December 7)

Tuesday (12,126 steps) - Work from home. Cold front came through and it was NOT warm. Went for the lunch walk with Pika solo because Ben was putting together the bar stools that we ordered.

Skipped the evening walk because I had almost frozen to death earlier. Finished packing up the medals. (Have I mentioned that I have a zillion of them?)

Went to Home Depot to price out appliance bundles, didn't order anything.

Wednesday (11,748 steps) - Work in the office in the morning. Home in time to take Pika for her lunch walk. More packing!

Thursday (16,759 steps) - Work from home. WE CLOSED ON THE NEW HOUSE!!

I know I passively talked about what's been going on, but I have to hand it to our realtor. We sold my house when we were running Moab 240 and closed in just two weeks with an amazing cash offer. The contract we accepted also gave us 60 days to stay in our place while we looked for something else. While we did have some things in storage for a "cleaner" showing, we now have a few weeks to move from our old house to our new one, which saves a LOT of stress. The only "issue" we even encountered was the sellers not having the house cleaned before closing. But once again, our realtor to the rescue, he got a cleaners scheduled for the the next day. So, minor bummer that we were not able to start moving "in" right away, but we got some stuff done around the house (painting) and some things moved into the garage.

Cookie basket and flowers from our realtor!

Friday (25,277 steps) - Work from home. Ben did more work at the new house while A and I were still at our old house. The cleaning company came and spent a few hours deep cleaning the new house. The weather was SO nice that I extended my lunch break a bit to go for a 30 minute run after I walked Pika. We made a TON of trips between the old and new house.

Saturday (17,029 steps) - Woke up ridiculously early for a weekend and got to work right away. It took most of the day, but I got my shelving units built for our new mud room! Most of this was done on my own, but Ariel did help with two of them.

LONG day, and more trips between the old and new house.

Sunday (20,772 steps) - Up "early" for another in person race! RMRR 4.5 mile at Wash Park. I hadn't run with RMRR since the March race right before everything shut down. They did a great job of contactless registration and even figured out an easier way for us to stagger start based on our handicaps. I didn't run as fast as the last time I ran this race (2018), but my biggest success was that I didn't feel horrible and I actually ran 100% of the race - didn't walk once!

Garmin Time - 46:29

Garmin Distance 4.54

Garmin Pace - 10:15

Mile 1 - 10:22

Mile 2 - 10:27

Mile 3 - 10:16

Mile 4 - 10:07

Mile 4.5 - 9:51

I hung around until the end and chatted with some folks before heading home. More moving. Pika walk!

Pulled out the matchy matchy pajamas I got everyone and took some pictures. We are dorky :D

Monday (12,628 steps) - Work from home. More moving. Pika walk. That's about it...

Stats:

116,339 steps
7.1 miles run
29 minutes cross training

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Week in Review (November 24 - November 30)

Tuesday (10,258 steps) - Work from home. Since it snowed, Pika was the happiest dog ever.

Definitely one of the perks of working from home is that when we DO get these surprise big storms (we were only supposed to get a dusting) I don't have to drive anywhere.

Wednesday (11,981 steps) - Work from home. It was cold and gross all day. Walked Pika a bunch, but it was icy and not fun.

Thursday (17,078 steps) - Thanksgiving! Ariel and I left the house just after 10 to go to Mt. Galbraith - one of the few local trails I've actually never been to. We met Maureen and Colfax for a hike/trail run. It was actually mostly snow-packed and not that icy, so we were able to run a lot more than I thought we might. Super fun time!

We headed home around 1:30 and Ben had already put the ham in the oven. Lots of relaxing until it was time to make the rest of the food. Yum!!

Friday (12,376 steps) - Yay for not working! Initially I had plans to possibly run, but then Josephine came over to pick up the treadmill and I lost all motivation. Ben and I went to New Image for happy hour.

Apparently, that's all we did.

Saturday (20,049 steps) - Slept in a bit, then went for a run. I had plans to run "5 or 6." I really didn't feel great on this run, it's been a while since I've done a run this long on pavement, but I actually got over a 10K done. Wheeee.

I did, however, come to the conclusion that I really need to make some dietary and sleep changes. Things have gotten out of control, and while I'm pretty sure I have gained weight (scale has been packed away for a while), it's more of how I'm feeling every day. Just feeling overall gross. So... cutting back on beer (sadness) and snacking for a while to see how things go. Blah. Pika walk!

Sunday (13,346 steps) - Ben made mountain breakfast, which was delicious. Took Pika for a walk at lunch. We started tackling some of the more "dreaded" packing - ie; taking down all my medals. WTF. I thought it was bad the last time... then I remember that I ran an additional 5 years and earned a LOT more. Of course 2019 and 2020 were pretty sparse, but prior to that... oy vey.

I guess that's all we did.

Monday (15,935 steps) - Work from home. Walked Pika. Went for a quick run right after I got off work before it got too dark. And by quick, it was under 30 minutes. I'm just impressed I did that at all. That run didn't feel too great either, but after not drinking for a few days I did already feel better. So there's that.

Stats:

101,023 steps
13 miles run
A whole 11 minutes of cross training!

Monday, November 30, 2020

Week in Review (November 17 - November 23)

Tuesday (12,231 steps) - Work from home. Pika walks. The end.

Wednesday (18,159 steps) - Work from home. Denver Roost run club!

Fun night running with Dave, Maureen & Colfax, Paula, John & Maya. Colfax got to try a jogging stroller for part of the run!

Thursday (20,253 steps) - Work from home. Weather was nice, so I was motivated to run during lunch with Pika. Apparently she really only enjoys running if there are other dogs she can compete with. This was a struggle pretty much the entire time.

After work we went to look at a couch. We had every intention of not spending a ton of money, but the one we liked online was small and uncomfortable in person. After pricing it out, we opted to order a different one, although we decided to sleep on it before putting money down.

Friday (14,797 steps) - Work from home. Today the weather was still nice, so I figured Batman could join on the lunch walk. It was all fun and games until Batman pooped in his backpack! The last 10 minutes were not pleasant, and I had to rush him into a bath as soon as I got home. Ugh.

Saturday (23,010 steps) - No recollection of the morning, other than we went ahead and ordered the couch. Oof. But isn't it pretty?

In the afternoon I stole Koda and ran him to Kristin's house to partake in her K50K for her birthday! I was joining for the last two segments. Can't believe how well she was running after she'd already hit a marathon distance! Last few miles Pika joined. It was NOT warm. Socialized for a bit around the firepit with everyone. Fun night!

Sunday (22,665 steps) - Up "early" to run with Belmar friends for a socially distanced turkey trot. I ran with Mo and Pika. Colfax wasn't up for running since he was still recovering from surgery. It felt like an unnecessarily difficult run for the distance, flatness & elevation gain. Womp, womp.

After we finished 5.5ish miles, we took the dogs for an additional walk. Social distanced for a bit with everyone after.

Monday (16,431 steps) - Work from home. A had her annual doctor's appointment, so I only had time to take Pika for a short walk. Quick three mile run after work since it was still relatively warm and it was light enough I didn't need a headlamp. I hate winter.

Stats:

127,546 steps
22.7 miles run
No cross training :(

Friday, November 20, 2020

Week in Review (November 10 - November 16)

Tuesday (17,678 steps) - Work from home, walked Pika during lunch. GMB run club! Ran with Mo for 4 miles and then had one beer on the patio. Getting a bit too cold for patio beers...

Wednesday (19,886 steps) - Work from home. Was inspired early in the day to try a new pot roast recipe in the crock pot. Good thing, apparently it takes forever to cook!

It looked much better after it was done, but apparently no picture of that

Ariel and I took Pika down to Denver to run with our old run club at Roost. After 4 miles we were treated to Biden winning / Dave's birthday cupcakes and Kahlua hot chocolate. Soooo nice to see people I haven't seen in ages, and I love that they bring camp chairs and socialize outside safely.

Thursday (11,946 steps) - Work from home. Ben's surgery was scheduled for 1:30, with him needing to check in at 1. I had to run by the office to get some work done on the way down (because of course the surgery center was over 45 minutes away). After all that, his surgery ended up being delayed nearly FOUR HOURS. WTF. I went to pho for lunch, went for a very long walk, then watched nearly a half dozen episodes of "The End of the F**cking World" in the car.

Finally, after 8:30, Ben was wheeled out and we headed home, picking up pizza on the way. A's friend Rachelle was over for the weekend (she is the only friend she has been socializing with since quarantine started) and the girls were super loud and giggly all night.

Friday (11,593 steps) - Work from home. Took Pika for walks. We had happy hour on our porch and it was wonderful that in addition to Tyler, Jeramiah and Kristin and Doug came to share a beer. We were able to give everyone the details about our upcoming home purchase, which was fun.

Saturday (17,566 steps) - Slept in. It was incredibly windy all morning, and I was REALLY regretting that I had decided to meet Kristin for a run around lunch time. Took Pika with me, and we actually had a pretty decent run, the wind was not nearly as bad as we feared. Later, the girls decided to bake cookies:

I went to Dairy Queen to pick up a cake for A's birthday! It's crazy that she is now 15 years old. 15!? How is that even possible? Ben made burgers and sweet potato tots for dinner before we dug into the cake.

Ben and I stayed up and watched the newest Terminator movie, which actually wasn't nearly as terrible as I thought it might be.

Sunday (32,908 steps) - Up early to go to Boulder. Met Kristin, Tyler and Jeramiah for a run. The trails were incredibly deserted, I guess most people don't like to start runs at 7 am in the winter? The trails were actually in really good shape, and I felt... not bad. There were some icy sections on the way back, and I had one fall from sliding, but nothing terrible. The wind really picked up the last few miles, we were definitely glad that we had started earlier and weren't spending all 12+ miles in gale force winds.