Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Week in Review (July 8 - July 14)

Tuesday (12,783 steps) - Peloton ride and walked Olive before going to work in the office. Gym at lunch - StairMaster and weights. 
After work I took Olive for another walk. Did we finish Squid Games? Unknown.
Wednesday (22,490 steps) - With the forecast being triple digits, I had to get up and do my run before work, which I *hate* doing. I had 4 miles at half marathon goal pace with a warmup and cool down. I set a range I wanted to hit and did pretty well. I took a couple walk breaks, but in general I was pleased with how this went. 
Took Olive to work and headed in to work. Headed home to meet up with Ben & Ariel for our movie night at the Alamo! Ariel got us all tickets for the new Jurassic Park. It was a great way to spent the evening since it was SO HOT. The movie was ok, predictable. Had a burger for dinner. We all took Olive for a short walk when we got home.
Thursday (15,181 steps) - Work from home. Late morning I met up with Larry and Terri in Boulder for a hike/run. Thankfully we had some cloud cover and a little bit of rain.


We headed into Louisville to Lulu's for a snack and a Texas Slush.
Home to finish work. Torchy's for dinner. Criminal Minds season finale.
Friday (12,544 steps) - Wash Park and Stella's with the gang.
Boring work day for all of us.
We met Ben at 4 Noses for happy hour - sticking to just one beer! Got Panda for dinner, which was delicious and fun.
Maybe this was the night we watched "Heads of State" - which we liked.
Saturday (37,538 steps) - Up early to walk Olive and drive up to Leadville for Silver Rush 15 miler.
Fun surprise to have Ana come to the finish line! Her and her husband came to Colorado a few weeks early for Summit 200. We sat around and chatted for a bit until they had to head out for their own adventures. Waited for Josephine and Jandy to finish and picked up some gear from the rabbit tent before heading out. Of course we made a stop at Outer Range. 
We were both hungry so we also got food. Picked up Olive on the way to the 4 Noses mug club party. They had lots of food for us, but we weren't hungry. Started a new series - Ballard.
Sunday (10,455 steps) - Didn't have a run planned, thankfully. In trying to think of something for us to do with Olive that involved her being able to get her feet wet, we went to Golden. It was chaos walking around by the river. Olive did get her paws wet, but she is still fearful of deeper water. I should teach her how to swim this summer.
Stopped at Golden City Brewing, but Olive didn't like the pebbles in the patio area.
Parry's on the way home for a snack. We were all SO HOT and spent the rest of the day inside watching Ballard episodes. 
Monday (16,831 steps) - Woke up very tired and forced myself out the door for my easy run before it got too hot and miserable. Spoiler, was still hot and miserable. Ariel showed up and we got coffee and picked up a breakfast taco. I took Olive for a walk, seemingly beating a storm I didn't even know was coming.
Then, since it was national mac & cheese day, we picked up food from Noodles. After getting off work I did a delivery and then met Ben at Costco to pick up groceries. Pizza for dinner and Ballard.

Stats:
  • 127,822 steps
  • 30.08 miles run
  • 14.96 miles walked
  • 30 minutes of cardio
  • 22 minutes of strength

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Week in Review (July 1 - July 7)

Tuesday (11,670 steps) - Slept much better, thankfully. Did a very short Peloton ride before getting ready and taking Olive to work. Never really thought I would say I was looking forward to work, but I was. I have taken a lot of things for granted that I am normally able to get done during the day for sure. Thanks to relatively good coverage, I was pretty much caught up on all my work by lunch. It helps that I had to check my email somewhat regularly because people were still emailing me since my out of office was vague on how long I would be out. Went to the gym and did the StairMaster (which I did NOT miss) and some weights. Really appreciate getting more sleep and being able to workout again on my lunch hour!! I did some deliveries on the way home from work and Ben picked up a pizza for dinner. We took Olive for a walk after dinner and then caught a few more episodes of Squid Games before another early bedtime. 
Wednesday (21,128 steps) - Slept AWESOME - first time in a while. I did have some weird dreams about the trial (not the case itself), however. Took Olive for a walk before going to work in the office. Since I actually had a hill-related workout to do, I had to do it after work. Unfortunately, since it was supposed to be about a zillion degrees. Ariel was able to let Olive out during the day, so I headed over to Green Mountain. I had a different type of hill workout, but since I was supposed to find something of at least 10%, I did my warm up on the bike path before doing the repeats. It was definitely HOT, but not as bad as I thought it would be?

I was starving when I finished up and met Ben at Torchy's for a delicious dinner.
Took Olive for a short walk. Squid Games.
Thursday (11,379 steps) - Work from home. Went to Dutch and Torchy's with Ariel before taking Olive for a walk. We got another episode of YOU watched while I finished up my day and did some packing for our weekend of "camping." There was a car fire with fatalities on I-70, so we were going to be delayed heading up. Once we got the camper loaded we went to 4 Noses for a beer, then stopped at the grocery store. By about 6:30 things were supposedly cleared up, so we headed up. Unfortunately, I think everyone else did the same thing - it took us probably twice as long as usual, but we got up safely. Our friend Lee lives in Dillon and has a huge driveway and he had no problem with us camping out in his driveway. The best part was having access to an indoor bathroom and running water.
Olive is the blur at the bottom of this picture
Lee was doing a bike race in the morning, so he headed to bed. We had a beer and relaxed.
Friday (14,475 steps) - We took Olive for a walk and Ben cooked some eggs while we decided what we wanted to do for the day. I had jokingly said that we should go to Webster Pass and run/hike up to Red Cone where the flag is for the fourth. Ben decided that we would drive up the pass. We got to drive by the house we are looking at (sigh, probably won't happen) and headed up. First off, neither of us seemingly had any recollection of the "road." It was a lot more technical than we remembered. Rocky, and very slow going. It took a LONG time to get to the saddle where we decided we would start. It was a bit windy and chilly when we arrived and took our initial pictures (and I let Olive roll around in the snow on the other side - but only on leash since there is still a drop off).




By the time we started it was a lot colder, very windy and was starting to lightly rain. Neither of us had pants, but we put on our R1s and rain jackets. The below picture is me looking back at where Camille was parked:
You wouldn't know it, but it was REALLY raining pretty hard at this point. With the wind, we were getting pelted and it almost felt like it was graupel. My legs were really cold! Since we were on the road, we had to wait for probably a half dozen jeeps to come down the trail.

Red Cone

We made it to the second hill before deciding we were  cold and not having fun and decided to head back to the truck.  

No regrets! I am glad that we came out this way though. I was really caught off guard for this section during Summit last year, so seeing it again was a good thing for me. It is definitely still really slow going, but knowing what I'm doing will benefit me, I think. We took the way down a "little" faster than the way up, but it was still a long way to town. We decided to visit a "new to us" brewery in Keystone, Steep. The beer was just ok, but the food was delicious.

Outer Range for one more beer before heading back to Lee's house. We made some hot dogs for dinner.
Saturday (20,844 steps) - Went into Breck for another activity. We decided to do Vomit Hill loop that we have done before. 

It was much warmer so we took a lot of breaks. Both for us and Olive.




Once again, I had forgotten Olive's bowl, but thankfully I always have random things I can turn into one. We stopped to let her drink out of a ziplock bag.
We took a different way back, this time on the Blair Witch trail. This picture of the three of us is relatively hilarious.


We were all toast when we finished. Stopped at Broken Compass on the way back to Dillon since dogs are allowed inside.

Hamburgers on the grill for dinner.
Sunday (22,308 steps) - Up early to head to Herman Gulch for the annual hike that I coordinate every year. I was especially excited that Ariel was going to drive up to join us since she had the morning off. We had a decent sized group this year:
As always, it was slow-going heading up. Partly because of all the pictures we had to take of the flowers. 







Once we got near the lake there was finally a snowfield for Olive and Waylon to play in - they had a great time!


We stayed at the lake for a decent amount of time waiting for everyone. Plus, the weather was much nicer than the year we summitted and had to immediately head down because it was raining. 
We made plans to go into Idaho Springs for lunch so that the people who had to go to Denver would be out of the worst of the traffic. Ben wasn't super crazy about that since we were still planning on being in Dillon until evening. Since we discovered last year that Tommyknocker's is dog friendly, we met up there. Lunch was delicious and it was nice to sit on the patio.
After lunch we headed back up the mountain, unfortunately hitting some traffic. We headed to Outer Range to meet up with Amanda, who needed a ride back to Lee's house. We packed up Shelly and had a snack before starting the drive down. Thankfully, waiting as long as we did, there was no traffic back to the city. Unpacked and had a frozen pizza for dinner, plus watched an episode of Squid Games.
Monday (18,116 steps) - Work from home, yay!! I had a run to do and went early since it was supposed to be in the mid 90s. Even starting before 10 am it was already so hot and I was sweating like crazy.

Ariel and I went to Dutch and Torchy's. I decided I better walk Olive before it got even warmer.

We were able to finally finish the last season of YOU. Joe is crazy. Picked up dinner at Costco and took Olive for a walk. Olive got so dirty camping over the weekend that Ariel actually gave her a bath. She doesn't need them that often!
Squid Games finale and then we started Nosferatu. 

Stats:
  • 119,920 steps
  • 25.97 miles run
  • 11.15 miles walked
  • 45 minutes of cardio
  • 25 minutes of strength

Week in Review (July 8 - July 14)

Tuesday  (12,783 steps) - Peloton ride and walked Olive before going to work in the office. Gym at lunch - StairMaster and weights.  After w...