Week in Review (May 5 - May 11)

Tuesday (13,274 steps) - Peloton and a cold, wet Olive walk before going to work. Spent a large portion of the day watching the Cocodona livestream. Went to the gym at lunch and did the StairMaster, strength and walked on the treadmill.

Pulled out my treadmill desk for the first time in ages while. By the time I left work it was barely raining and when I got to Arvada it was a full-blown whiteout. Dinner, more Cocodona and a little bit of Good Wife. 

Wednesday (14,315 steps) - Well, we did get a LOT of snow overnight.

Since it's been so warm, the roads were relatively dry, so I still planned on going to work at the usual time, but walked Olive first. She was very happy to see snow again!

It was barely snowing at the house but was a blizzard closer to Denver. I had brought clothes for both inside and outside since I had a workout to do. Since it was still snowing pretty heavily at lunch I did my workout on the treadmill. I was watching the livestream again and watching Rachel crush it - glued to the screen to see if she could maintain her lead. The workout itself wasn't that bad with three intervals of running fast. Later in the day I watched Rachel WIN COCODONA. Crazy that she beat Dan's time from last year by actual hours. OVERALL WINNER WAS A FEMALE, OMG!! By the time I got off work it had stopped snowing and most of the snow had already melted. Colorado, you so crazy. Took Olive for a walk and assessed the damage to all the trees :(

Delicious dinner!

More livestream and Good Wife.

Thursday (14,002 steps) - Work from home! Took Olive for a short walk before I went for my easy run. I had been putting it off for hours and it was actually pretty decent. I figured the trails would be a mess so I did a random paved route. Did my thirty minutes of strength training and a sauna session.

Another Olive walk and a delivery before I met up with Ben at Torchy's. More livestream and Good Wife.

Friday (16,714 steps) - Actually got up early and went to Wash Park with the gang - first time in many months. Took Olive for another longer walk at lunch - a nice day considering we had a foot of snow two days earlier. 

After work I dropped Olive off at home and met Ben at 4 Noses for happy hour and dinner. More Cocodona livestream and Good Wife.

Saturday (28,006 steps) - Turned on the livestream as soon as we got up because it was nearing Golden Hour! I remembered that today was the day the tree/limb drop off was, so Ben got started on gathering everything and loading up the truck. He didn't think he could do it all in one trip, so he suggested I go for my run alone. Got dressed and headed up to Boulder for the loop I had planned. Actually had a REALLY good run overall. No walk breaks at all (!!) but I did have a side ache/cramp for probably 4-5 miles and had to use the bathroom for the last couple miles. 

Met Ben and Olive at 4 Noses. We didn't stay TOO long because there weren't really spots in the shade. Took Olive for a long walk to the lake when we got home, showered and then re-watched the last hour of the Cocodona livestream (although it was not live at this time). Holy cow, was the last finisher something to see, IYKYK. Ben ordered in Indian food for dinner, yum! Good Wife.

Sunday (18,017 steps) - Mother's Day, wooo. Ben took me to the Brunch House - I was glad I had the foresight to suggest we go early (just after 8), because it was already getting pretty crowded when we got there. It was helpful that it was just the two of us and we didn't have to wait. Food was amazing!

I thought we could go somewhere different (other than our normal Boulder loop), so we headed up to the Moffat Tunnel. No clue what trail conditions would be like, but we found out pretty early we were going to get wet from runoff. 

Olive was ecstatic that we found her snow to play in!

Attempted to go up to Crater Lake, but without traction it was really too slick for us to do safely, so we turned around about a half mile from the lake. 

Hard to believe this was the trail!

We stopped at Howlin Wind for a beer. I had hoped to get a coffee since there is also a coffee shop inside, but they had closed about 15 minutes before we got there. We headed back down to the city and made a stop at McDonald's to get me a McFlurry, but their stupid machine was broken. Annoying!! Went home and lounged around the house. Ben ordered in Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. Good Wife. 

Monday (22,452 steps) - Work from home! It was supposed to be a very warm day, so I went for my run early. Another good run?? What's this?? It was warm, but not that bad and I (mostly) enjoyed myself.

Took Olive for a long walk to the lake. She was a bit mad that I wouldn't let her go in the lake.

After I got off work, Olive and I went outside to sit on the deck since it was nice outside. We had the most exciting thing happen. I heard a noise in one of our neighbor's yards and thought it must have been squirrels fighting but it was a FOX that jumped over our fence and ran through the backyard. Olive immediately started to chase it before it climbed/jumped the fence into Cameron's yard. Very exciting!! Ariel came over for late Mother's Day. Pizza for dinner and more Good Wife.

Stats:

• 126,780 steps
• 30.04 miles run
• 14.22 miles walked
• 40 minutes of cardio
• 50 minutes of strength
• 20 minutes of sauna