Week in Review (June 17 - June 23)

Tuesday (11,848 steps) - Up early for cross training. Did a 30 minutes of upper body/back strength training and 30 minutes on the bike before taking Olive for a walk. Yet another day of going to jury duty. Took a walk around the court house at lunch.

Took Olive for a walk when I got home. TV of some kind... maybe this was the night we watched The Accountant 2?

Wednesday (22,210 steps) - Still have jury duty and I had a decent workout on schedule. Since I am a slow runner, my coach normally gives me everything in time, but he had EIGHT miles on schedule. I figured I would just go for "a" run. I was not in the mood for it at all and was really taking it easy when I headed out. I ran into Tanessa and her daughter near the park and we ended up running together for about 20 minutes, which was really nice and made my run a lot better. The way back (alone) was faster because I was worried about having enough time to walk Olive and get ready. Another walk around the court house during lunch and took Olive for a longer walk when I got home.

Thursday (18,984 steps) - YAY for a federal holiday that gave me the day off from BOTH work and jury duty. I didn't set an alarm to get up early, but Olive and I had plans to go in the mountains and check out Square Top. I sent Ariel a text when I left the house to see if she wanted to meet at Dutch for a coffee, which she did. We ended up not taking the trek up until maybe 10 am - which was a HUGE mistake. I had completely forgotten about all the road construction on I-70. The traffic was horrible and it took probably twice as long to get to Idaho Springs. Once we got to town it was a normal drive up. We arrive around noon, which is pretty late and I was shocked to see so many people on the trail (and across the way at Bierstadt). 

The lower "pond" that's about a mile up was the lowest I have ever seen and it was barely a puddle for Olive to get in and get some water. 

There was a decent snow field in the typically muddy area and then at the junction for the lakes - which of course Olive loved playing in. 

The drive back down wasn't AS bad as the way up, but it still wasn't great. I had been messaging with Mo to see if she wanted to meet up for a beer or snack, but the brewery we normally meet at near Evergreen has seemingly gone out of business. (Side note - is anyone else noticing that a large number of established businesses have been suddenly shuttering as of late?) By the time we reconnected after getting phone service out of the mountains it was pretty much too late to do anything. I decided to stop at Over Yonder since they allow dogs inside and then planned to meet both Mo and Ben at Roost in Lakewood for a run club. 

I had wanted to go to run club since I knew that Topo was going to be there. They were doing demo shoes of the version 4 of the Ultraventure, which I wanted to try - and I am so glad I did! I found the sizing of the 3's to be off, and had to size down, while I found the 4's to be more true to size. We did not run, but we walked with Mo and Colfax, Erica and Dani - it was nice to catch up! Topo did a giveaway and Ben won! He doesn't wear Topo so he gave the free shoes to me. YAY!!

They did a fun taco relay, which I didn't participate in OR take any pictures, but Ben did and that was pretty fun.

Friday (11,147 steps) - I did NOT have jury duty, but had to go in to work instead. I took Olive for a long walk - and finally saw some owls!

Took Olive to work with me and it was a very busy day trying to get caught up after unexpectedly missing so much work. We headed straight to 4 Noses to meet up with Ben for a beer and some sushi tacos. Yum!

Saturday (20,250 steps) - Took Olive for a walk and then had to meet Ariel at Big O because now one of her rear tires seemed to be flat and she had to work all day. I had planned on it being a longer morning, so I wore my running shoes so that I could get my run out of the way before it got too hot. I didn't have too much of a route planned, but I knew I was going to be out for around 90 minutes. I headed down the road towards the path I have run many times - that was a bit sketchy for sure. 

I definitely needed to use the bathroom at one point and was really grateful that I remembered there were facilities at a rec center. At some point I had decided that I'd rather try to create a loop to head back rather than go back the way I came, and I ended up in a cute neighborhood that had some goats. Wish we could have goats...

I ended up on a major road and decided to stop and buy some water. For whatever reason, the drinking fountains in the park around the rec center were all shut off. Glad I had my wallet on me!

I somehow managed to time my route pretty good and basically got back in exactly the time I planned. I only had to wait maybe another 20 minutes for Ariel's car - we found out it was a sensor for the tire pressure and not a tire at all. Still costly, though. I was starving by this point since I hadn't had breakfast, so I went across the street for a burger. Yum.

Olive had her grooming appointment, so we headed up to 4 Noses. 

This may be one of my favorite new bandanas!

Sunday (39,359 steps) - Up around 4 am since I had to drive up to Boulder for the Sunset Trail festival race I was running with Terri and Larry. First, though, I had to get ready and take Olive for a walk. I was out the door shortly after 5 and got to the Justice Center in plenty of time. I'll recap this separately.

Finally got service when we were almost back to Boulder and Ben said that he would meet us at 4 Noses. Not sure what else we did after.

Monday (15,050 steps) - Another day that I didn't have jury duty since the judge had other cases he needed to tend to. I did, however, still need to work. It was nice not getting up early. Ariel had mentioned she was going to be coming by, so I hurried out the door to get my run in. It was a relatively blah run, but it was nice and cool out and not as awful as it could have been. She got to the house shortly after I did and while she was doing some other things I took Olive for a walk. We went to Dutch and picked up Torchy's for lunch. Finished out the day working and finishing an episode of You. Watching "The Waterfront."

Stats:

• 138,848 steps
• 37.65 miles run
• 11.53 miles walked
• 30 minutes of cardio
• 30 minutes of strength