Because Being Ordinary Is Boring

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Week in Review (June 9 - June 15)

Tuesday (14,593 steps) - Peloton and Olive walk (with Ben!) before going to work.

Gym at lunch for StairMaster, weights and a treadmill walk.

Went for another quick walk in the afternoon just to get out of the office. Olive walk when I got home from work. Ariel came over for dinner and to spend the night! Good Fight.

Wednesday (21,861 steps) - Olive walk before work. Ariel was taking Olive to HER work for the day, fun!

Olive the intern!

Long walk at lunch. After work I went home to change and Ben and I went to the lake for my hill workout. Even though it was 90 degrees it wasn't horrible.

After dinner I took Olive for another walk. Good Fight.

Thursday (18,433 steps) - Ugh, I woke up hours before I needed to be up - annoying!! Finished the book I was reading and went for my run. It was quite a nice morning and the run went well, but a heart rate glitch early in the run had Garmin giving me a horrible performance score - good thing it doesn't actually matter.

Got my strength training in and Ben and I took Olive for a long walk to the lake at lunch. Did a delivery before meeting Ben at Torchy's for our normal Thursday dinner date. Got another good offer on my way home and unfortunately closed my thumb in my car door (??) - hurt so bad and my thumb immediately turned purple and began to swell. Olive walk and packed for our weekend camping trip before more Good Fight.

Friday (16,091 steps) - Once again, up early. That meant we had time to go to Wash Park for the group walk before going to work.

Olive and I went for our lunch walk early to beat the heat.

I left work a little bit early so I could do last minute packing and we could head up to Summit County to hopefully avoid traffic. I still had to bring my laptop to work in the car for about a half hour, but it was better than nothing. Thankfully there was basically no traffic and we were on the road in no time. Of course our first stop was Outer Range, but we didn't stay too long and we were at our campsite by 7 with plenty of time for Ben to make dinner - hot dogs!

Long day and we didn't stay up late.

Saturday (28,602 steps) - Quick lap around the campground with Olive and coffee before I headed out for an hour(ish) run on the rec path.

We had hoped to do a fun loop up near Ten Mile, but the road we needed to go up was closed. Instead, we drove up Miner's Creek and did a figure 8 loop that I created off Gaia. It was pretty great! Seemed to be relatively primitive single track and we only saw one bike the whole time!

First columbine of the year!!

Outer Range, and I had an ahi tuna bowl. Lee came by the campsite to hang out for a bit to hang out, burgers for dinner.

We had a little bit of rain on and off and we were in bed even EARLIER.

Sunday (14,951 steps) - Quick Olive walk around the campsite and coffee. We had been on the fence about heading home and I decided I'd rather go home. We opted to go into Frisco and do a "quick" trip up to Mt. Royal. While I've been on the lower trails plenty of times, I've only been to the summit of Royal once.

This is the tallest sign I've ever seen

We hurried back to load up the camper since check out was 11 am. Stopped by Outer Range for a quick lunch before going home.

Surprisingly little traffic for leaving around 12:30 on a Sunday! Got everything unpacked and spent the afternoon unwinding from the weekend. Ben ordered in pizza for dinner and Good Fight.

Monday (22,195 steps) - Olive walk in the morning with Ben before I logged in for the day. Ben and I went for an easy late morning run.

We also took Olive for a long walk. All the cacti are blooming AND we saw our first owls of the year - much later than usual and we have been worried about them!

I have been talking about it for ages, but I finally went through and decided to retire a bunch of running shoes. I seem to be collecting them and these are ones that I just haven't been wearing. I have been hesitant to get rid of them because they still "seem fine" - but it just doesn't really make sense to hold on to them.

After work I did a few deliveries and then Ben and I walked down the street for an impromptu sushi dinner!

Took Olive for another walk when we got back. Relaxing and Good Fight.

Stats:

136,726 steps
26.09 miles run
20.4 miles walked
40 minutes of cardio
50 minutes of strength
0 minutes of sauna

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Week in Review (June 2 - June 8)

Tuesday (10,800 steps) - Olive walk before going to work. Only had 30 minutes of cross training on schedule so I did a full body strength video and a treadmill hike/walk. Took Olive for a walk when I got home. Ben made dinner (chicken in the air fryer) and Good Fight.

Wednesday (16,750 steps) - Olive walk before work. Had an easy 45-minute run on schedule so I grabbed a pair of shorts I needed to return at REI and did my run during lunch. It was supposed to be in the mid 80s, but thankfully there was cloud cover, so it wasn't terrible.

Perfect hat for Global Running Day?

Olive walk after work. Ben picked up pizza, yay! Good Fight.

Thursday (19,500 steps) - Another morning I woke up WELL before my alarm. Ben had gone to pick us up Dutch Bros. and since the forecast was a million degrees I took Olive for an early walk before I clocked in. Supposed to be a scorcher, so I went for my run early, it was thankfully not terrible.

Also got in a Peloton ride, a longer walk with Olive and my strength training. After work I met Ben at Torchy's for our weekly dinner date. Took Olive for a walk when I got home. Good Fight.

Friday (15,118 steps) - Woke up crazy early but decided I didn't want to drive down to Wash Park. Ben and I took Olive for a walk before going to work. Took Olive for an early lunch walk since it was supposed to be crazy hot again.

Brought Olive back out for a short walk around the block since she had taken her long walk so early. Very hot. Headed home and Ben ordered in food for dinner. Took Olive for another walk. Good Fight.

Saturday (28,872 steps) - Woke up before my alarm so I had time to take Olive for a walk. Drove down to Runners Roost Central Park for Runners Edge! I had a long run to do and figured I might as well suffer with friends in a group setting. A gal before the run came up to me and said she reads my blog. Hi! (I'm so sorry, I was frazzled and I can't remember your name. Laura?) Ran for the first half hour with Sheila, which was nice! Had planned to do a few hours and turned around with a goal of just over 10 miles.

I ran about 15 minutes with a random guy from the group that asked me if I was training for anything and then we got into a conversation about ultras and I think I convinced him he should sign up for Dead Horse in November. I realized I was running much faster than I wanted, so I told him I was going to slow it down for the last few miles. Of course everyone was gone by the time I got back to the store and there was nothing I was interested in shopping for so I headed home to pack for our impromptu weekend "camping" trip. Ben had most of the hard stuff done, I just had to pack up stuff for me and Olive. Left around 11 or 12 and headed straight for Outer Range.

We thought about picking up groceries but decided to just set up at Lee's house. Olive walk around the block and Ben had Cheba Hut delivered.

We did an impromptu "bike ride" - Lee wanted us to demo a few of his bikes and he had one that was sized for me. Pretty terrifying, I think the last time I was on a bike other than the Peloton was when we went to Australia!

Headed to bed relatively early.

Sunday (19,506 steps) - Lee left pretty early for a group ride and we had plans to do a hike with Olive. Stopped at Dunkin on the way to Blue River for more coffee and a donut. We drove all the way to the upper trailhead for lower and upper Mohawk lakes. Overall, it was a really great hike and perfect weather.

We did have a few encounters with very rude and entitled people on the trails, but we had fun. Olive especially loved finding a few snowbanks and shallow river/lakes to play in. Stopped at Outer Range and then Safeway to pick up stuff to make burgers for dinner. Another walk around the block with Olive.

Monday (21,289 steps) - Up early so I could do my run before clocking in for the day. I had mapped out a run on Tenderfoot, which is only about a half mile from Lee's house. I had it on both my watch and phone but got confused pretty early on with navigation and ended up having to do the route in reverse since I wasn't going to have time to backtrack. It was a gorgeous, albeit a little chilly, morning. I saw exactly zero people on the trails - which was perfect. I really enjoyed this route.

Got back just in time to start work for the day, only I had to deal with a completely dead laptop battery. Boo. Another walk with Olive and Ben around the block before we headed down to Denver. Thanks to Ben getting Starlink I was able to work the whole drive without having to waste my cell battery. Unpacked the truck and showered before going to the dentist on my lunch break. We had some crazy storms in the afternoon - including hail!! After work we went to Costco for our weekly grocery shopping. Dinner and another Olive walk before Good Fight.