Week in Review (October 28 - November 3)

Tuesday (12,984 steps) - Peloton and a very cold Olive walk before going to work in the office. Long gym session at lunch of StairMaster, strength and a brisk walk. 

Work was insane the whole day. When I got home it seemed sunny and warmer so I opted to take Olive for a longer walk to the lake since it was still light out - spoiler, it was not as warm as I thought. 

After dinner we watched the Werewolf of Snow Hollow - a little cheesy, but a decent Halloween movie. The quest for another scary movie continues!

Wednesday (17,615 steps) - Awoke to very cold temperatures, so I guess the heat goes on. Took Olive for another very chilly walk before going to work. I took my lunch break early so I could get my workout in - a not-so-horrible tempo run. 

Had a lunch meeting during work. Took Olive for a walk after work. Dinner and House of Dynamite. It was a good movie but the ending was a huge disappointment!

Thursday (12,218 steps)  - Peloton before work at home. Took Olive for a long walk to the lake at lunch. Barre video in the afternoon and did one delivery before heading down to Belmar with Olive for "walk" club. It was great to see everyone! 

Colfax was adorable dressed as Dumbledore

Winning costume was Harry & Lloyd with the dog dressed as a Hooter (Icelandic snowy owl) 

Rushed home to drop Olive off before Ben and I headed to Torchy's for our usual dinner - even though it was late. ALMOST finished Dark Wolf, but we had to stop when Ben dozed off during the final few scenes. 

Friday (13,218 steps) - Skipped the morning walk with the gang but took Olive for a walk around the neighborhood.

Headed into the office all dressed up for Halloween. Took Olive for a walk at lunch and then we had to do the Halloween parade through the office - which was a little silly since hardly anyone works on Fridays. 

Took Olive home, did a delivery and then met Ben at 4 Noses. Actually had one beer (just 6 oz) before heading home for dinner, which Ben ordered in from Cupbop - which was DELICIOUS. 

We watched "Vicious" - which was a very strange movie.

Saturday (25,319 steps) - Up early to head down to Belmar again to run with Runners Edge! The route was 7 miles, and that is all we planned on doing. We did the first mile or two solo and then joined Alison. 

Eventually we had Janet and Kristin with us, so it was fun to run with a bigger group again. Ben's foot started to hurt pretty bad the last mile, so I left him to finish the loop and then went back to get him. Ariel met us at the store to visit with people before we went to brunch together. We chose to go to Danny's. We hadn't been since they moved to their new location - what a difference! So much more space and we were able to get seated right away. 

We then went to Dutch on the way home. Took Olive for a walk to the lake. I took a shower and read my book before going out to drive for a few hours since they were running a promotion for bonuses on deliveries. There was an event happening at the new Toyota location in Wheat Ridge, so we grabbed Olive and went over there for a few hours. It was complete chaos. 

This coffee truck cracked me up

Everyone LOVED Olive!

For dinner we stopped at Parry's to get food to go. Watched "The Ward."

Sunday (25,018 steps) - And the first day of daylight savings had us up at six. UGH. Took Olive for a walk and then went solo for my run up in Broomfield. The run itself wasn't horrible, but there was a trail detour that gave me an extra 2/3 of a mile that I wasn't happy about. 

Met Ben at 4 Noses for a  NA and a Topo since it was warm out. Unfortunately, it was also windy, so we didn't stay too long. Ben picked up a Costco pizza (food court has FINALLY reopened after MONTHS) and we went home and put on our pjs at 2 in the afternoon! First, we watched "Blink Twice." I took Olive for a walk and then we also watched "The Devil Below" and finished the last episode of Dark Wolf.

Monday (17,835 steps) - Work from home. Thanks to the time change I was up more than an hour before I needed to be. I started organizing some of my clothes, did laundry and started to gather things for my next adventure. Took Olive for a walk and then went out for my run. Run thankfully wasn't bad. 

Did a few deliveries on my way to meet Ben at Costco for the week's groceries. 

This is at like 5 pm :(

Put dinner in the oven and took Olive for another walk. We started a new series, FBI: Most Wanted.

Stats:

• 124,207 steps
• 25.52 miles run
• 16.19 miles walked
• 55 minutes of cardio
• 45 minutes of strength

Week in Review (November 12 - November 18)

Tuesday (11,818 steps) - Olive walk before work. Went to the gym at lunch. Ambitiously thought I could climb the tallest building in Dubai on the StairMaster, but quit after a half hour because it was going to take me longer than my whole lunch hour. 

Did some strength training. Arranged all my new ducks - pretty soon there will not be any more room for people to put stuff on my ledge.

Walked Olive again when I got home from work.

Wednesday (15,704 steps) - Peloton and Olive walk before going to work. Cross training again at lunch since the run I had on schedule needed to be hilly, which I don't have in the city. Olive walk when I got home.

Thursday (19,775 steps) - Work from home. Since it was Ariel's birthday I went down to Golden to take her out for coffee. I stopped on the drive home to do my hill repeats near the NAAC. Normally I do these at Dino Ridge, but I gave this a chance since it was on my drive home anyway. Turned out to be a good location for it and there was not a lot of people on the bike path. 

Took Olive for a slow walk when I got home. Did some driving and then we went to Torchy's for our weekly dinner.

Friday (12,032 steps) - Olive had been limping (again, but this time her back paw), so we skipped the Wash Park walk. I still took her to work though, which she finds boring.

After work did some driving and then Ben and I met at Salsa's for dinner.

Ted Lasso! This is such a great show, we are really enjoying it.

Saturday (29,459 steps) - Drove down to Lakewood for the Runners Edge winter kickoff. I had 2.5 hours on schedule and planned to do 10 miles as a compromise.

I feel like every time I run in Lakewood I am bamboozled by how hilly it feels. We saw the scariest 12 foot skeleton dressed up like a pilgrim.

While we knew quite a few people out running, we ended up doing all the miles by ourselves. The run was... fine, but it definitely seemed like too much work for the mileage/pace.

We had plans to stick around the store and shop when we got done, but there were no shoes Ben was interested in, and no apparel I wanted. Plus, everyone we knew had seemingly already left! We stopped at Parry's on the way home for a drink (NA beer for me) and a snack.

Took Olive for a long walk when we got back. They appear to be doing something with the degrading dock...

Went to 4 Noses for Ben, although he bribed me with a Ziggi's coffee. AND! Olive's new outfit came, and she looks so adorable in it!

Ted Lasso!

Sunday (10,526 steps) - I was supposed to "bag a peak," per my training. I didn't get up early enough to go anywhere, so Ben and I just took Olive for a long walk.

We drove into Golden and picked up Ariel to take her to breakfast at the Golden Diner for her birthday. 

She wanted to come back to the house to spend the day/night. She opened up all her presents, and then Ariel and I went to Target to walk around. We stopped at Torchy's on the way back to eat some queso and say hi to Amanda. Ben and I went to 4 Noses so Ariel could shower and get some studying done. We made alfredo for dinner and watched a movie. It was nice!

Monday (16,126 steps) - Work from home before taking Ariel to get coffee and taking her back to school. The weather had seemed glorious when we left, but it seemed to get cloudy on my drive back. I opted to walk Olive first while deciding what clothes would be best for my run. Unfortunately, by the time I did my run the clouds had taken over and it got WINDY. (Yes, I realize the picture below doesn't appear like bad weather, but I was running west, TOWARDS the weather).

Run was NOT good, and it was a lot more work than it should have been. I went to Tokyo Joe's for my free "half birthday" entrée and it was delicious!

Did some driving and Ben picked up pizza for dinner. More Ted Lasso!

Stats:

• 115,440 steps
• 22.08 miles run
• 15.56 miles walked
• 41 minutes of cardio
• 70 minutes of strength

Week in Review (February 20 - February 26)

Tuesday (16,065 steps) - Recovery week, so I didn't get up early to do a Peloton ride. Work in the office. Most exciting part of the day was I had to order food in from Heidi's for a deposition and I got to get lunch too. I finally got irritated with how little progress has been made on Ariel's bathroom since Ben did the demo back in mid-July. I made a post on Nextdoor and asked who would be willing to do the work for us. We had had one guy look at weeks ago and the quote had a bunch of items on it that we didn't need, and nothing was itemized. We never got a revised quote and I want this done! Before photo:

Wednesday (12,183 steps) - Work in the office. Walked on the treadmill. Went to the gym at lunch and did a short ride and some lifting (mainly just to keep my Peloton streak active. Met Ben at Parry's for happy hour and dinner.

Thursday (11,046 steps) - Work from home. Took Olive for a long walk at lunch. After work went up to Terri's house for a fun night of Stout tastings and snacking. Home way too late.

Friday (21,534 steps) - Wash Park and coffee!

Did some UberEats driving in an effort to make some money. The guy that we are going to have do the work in our bathroom is "cash only" so I need as much as possible! 

Saturday (25,381 steps) - Ben and I went to Runners Edge since it was just down the street. It was ok, but not great.

Stuck around Panera a bit to have coffee and socialize with Jeramiah and Alison. (And someone else but I can't remember who). Took Olive for a walk.

Did some more driving before we went to Floor & Decor so we could get samples of all our tiles to see how they will look in the space.

Sunday (13,755 steps) - Didn't have many miles on schedule, so Ben and I went for a run with Olive. The first part of the run wasn't great. Olive kept looking over her shoulder at Ben and I kept tripping over her. After she pooped around the halfway point she got motivated to get back home and the back half was a lot better. We went to lunch at Parry's.

We went back to Floor & Decor and actually bought all the tile and grout. Did some deliveries on the way home and then took Olive for another walk.

Went to 4 Noses after that. Goodbye, weekend!

Monday (19,748 steps) - Work from home. Shawn, our bathroom guy, started bringing over all his supplies to start work on the bathroom.

First step was to cut holes in the cement so that the cast iron pipe for the toilet could be replaced.

Discovered that the pipe for the shower was also cracked at the threads AND was connected via a flange to the toilet, so a bigger hole in the cement had to be cut open so that other pipe could also be replaced. 

Isn't home ownership fun? Took Olive for a walk, and also had a run to do at lunch. For some reason I ran to the north side of the lake. It was not a good run. Why do I run that route? I know I wanted to run dirt and the south side was too muddy (based on Sunday's run with Ben and Olive). Ugh - I need to remember in the future how much I dislike that part of the trails. Did some driving after I got off work.

Stats:

• 119,712 steps
• 14.49 miles run
• 5 minutes of cardio
• 18 minutes of strength