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 (June 24 - June 30)

Tuesday (11,251 steps) - 30 minutes of strength training and 30 minute ride on the bike, plus walking Olive for heading back to court for jury duty. Walked with Olive and Ben after dinner.

Wednesday (19,485 steps) - Up early for speed work that I did NOT want to do. These early mornings just have me so blah and tired and unmotivated. I was supposed to do 5x (2 minutes easy, medium, hard). I came nowhere near the paces I was supposed to hit, but just felt good about at least attempting it and chalking it up to, next one will be better. Walked Olive, then back to court. Another walk after dinner.

Thursday (14,816 steps) - Thankfully a rest day from a run or cross training, so I took Olive for a longer walk to the lake before court. Yes again. Costco after work and then took Olive for a short walk after dinner.

Friday (14,210 steps) - Another long walk with Olive to the lake before court. 

We got out of court later and it was a horrible drive home. Ariel went on a walk with me and Olive and stayed for dinner.

Saturday (40,214 steps) - Leadville Heavy Half. 

We headed down the mountain shortly after 3:30, stopping at Outer Range. Some new beers on tap, which were delicious!

Got home just after 7. Leftovers for dinner.

Sunday (18,906 steps) - Took Olive for a longer walk in the morning around lunch while we debated buying tickets to go to the Pantera/Metallica concert. 

Finally we bit the bullet and picked up tickets, including one for Heather. We went to 4 Noses with Olive before heading down to Denver. Took a Lyft from my office to Raices for a beer and some random snacks at the food truck.

I completely misread what section our seats were in and we missed the opening band because we were walking all over the stadium. Finally found our seats shortly before Pantera took the stage.

It's been a long time, but they sounded AWESOME. I can't believe that I hadn't seen them in 25+ years, they sounded REALLY good. The weather was very pleasant, which also made for a good experience.

I had never seen Metallica in concert and I was a little underwhelmed by them. It was still fun to see them, but it really sounded more like "noise" to me and I didn't like it as much. Heather had left after a few songs since she had to work very early. I think Ben and I did start to head out a bit before the show was over, and unfortunately we had to walk all  the way back to my office since it was so chaotic - we had three Lyft drivers cancel on us and the rickshaw drivers wanted an obscene amount of money. We got home at MIDNIGHT.

Monday (11,163 steps) - I had a run on schedule, but due to getting home so late and not sleeping well, I opted to skip it and took Olive for a long walk instead. Went to court for THE LAST TIME!!! Finally, we came back with our verdict. After we returned our verdict we were told the prosecution were adding habitual criminal counts, which required a second "mini" trial. This law only went into effect the beginning of June, so according to the judge in our case, we were the first case in Colorado to apply this. Anyway, cool experience, but REALLY glad to be done. That was a very long time to be away from "normal" life. 

Stats:

• 130,045 steps
• 19.92 miles run
• 20.17 miles walked
• 30 minutes of cardio
• 30 minutes of strength