Week in Review (June 2 - June 8)

Tuesday (10,800 steps) - Olive walk before going to work. Only had 30 minutes of cross training on schedule so I did a full body strength video and a treadmill hike/walk. Took Olive for a walk when I got home. Ben made dinner (chicken in the air fryer) and Good Fight.

Wednesday (16,750 steps) - Olive walk before work. Had an easy 45-minute run on schedule so I grabbed a pair of shorts I needed to return at REI and did my run during lunch. It was supposed to be in the mid 80s, but thankfully there was cloud cover, so it wasn't terrible. 

Perfect hat for Global Running Day?

Olive walk after work. Ben picked up pizza, yay! Good Fight.

Thursday (19,500 steps) - Another morning I woke up WELL before my alarm. Ben had gone to pick us up Dutch Bros. and since the forecast was a million degrees I took Olive for an early walk before I clocked in. Supposed to be a scorcher, so I went for my run early, it was thankfully not terrible. 

Also got in a Peloton ride, a longer walk with Olive and my strength training. After work I met Ben at Torchy's for our weekly dinner date. Took Olive for a walk when I got home. Good Fight.

Friday (15,118 steps) - Woke up crazy early but decided I didn't want to drive down to Wash Park. Ben and I took Olive for a walk before going to work. Took Olive for an early lunch walk since it was supposed to be crazy hot again. 

Brought Olive back out for a short walk around the block since she had taken her long walk so early. Very hot. Headed home and Ben ordered in food for dinner. Took Olive for another walk. Good Fight.

Saturday (28,872 steps) - Woke up before my alarm so I had time to take Olive for a walk. Drove down to Runners Roost Central Park for Runners Edge! I had a long run to do and figured I might as well suffer with friends in a group setting. A gal before the run came up to me and said she reads my blog. Hi! (I'm so sorry, I was frazzled and I can't remember your name. Laura?) Ran for the first half hour with Sheila, which was nice! Had planned to do a few hours and turned around with a goal of just over 10 miles. 

I ran about 15 minutes with a random guy from the group that asked me if I was training for anything and then we got into a conversation about ultras and I think I convinced him he should sign up for Dead Horse in November. I realized I was running much faster than I wanted, so I told him I was going to slow it down for the last few miles. Of course everyone was gone by the time I got back to the store and there was nothing I was interested in shopping for so I headed home to pack for our impromptu weekend "camping" trip. Ben had most of the hard stuff done, I just had to pack up stuff for me and Olive. Left around 11 or 12 and headed straight for Outer Range. 

We thought about picking up groceries but decided to just set up at Lee's house. Olive walk around the block and Ben had Cheba Hut delivered. 

We did an impromptu "bike ride" - Lee wanted us to demo a few of his bikes and he had one that was sized for me. Pretty terrifying, I think the last time I was on a bike other than the Peloton was when we went to Australia! 

Headed to bed relatively early. 

Sunday (19,506 steps) - Lee left pretty early for a group ride and we had plans to do a hike with Olive. Stopped at Dunkin on the way to Blue River for more coffee and a donut. We drove all the way to the upper trailhead for lower and upper Mohawk lakes. Overall, it was a really great hike and perfect weather. 

We did have a few encounters with very rude and entitled people on the trails, but we had fun. Olive especially loved finding a few snowbanks and shallow river/lakes to play in. Stopped at Outer Range and then Safeway to pick up stuff to make burgers for dinner. Another walk around the block with Olive. 

Monday (21,289 steps) - Up early so I could do my run before clocking in for the day. I had mapped out a run on Tenderfoot, which is only about a half mile from Lee's house. I had it on both my watch and phone but got confused pretty early on with navigation and ended up having to do the route in reverse since I wasn't going to have time to backtrack. It was a gorgeous, albeit a little chilly, morning. I saw exactly zero people on the trails - which was perfect. I really enjoyed this route. 

Got back just in time to start work for the day, only I had to deal with a completely dead laptop battery. Boo. Another walk with Olive and Ben around the block before we headed down to Denver. Thanks to Ben getting Starlink I was able to work the whole drive without having to waste my cell battery. Unpacked the truck and showered before going to the dentist on my lunch break. We had some crazy storms in the afternoon - including hail!! After work we went to Costco for our weekly grocery shopping. Dinner and another Olive walk before Good Fight.

Stats:

• 131,835 steps
• 28.84 miles run
• 17.12 miles walked
• 31 minutes of cardio
• 50 minutes of strength
• 0 minutes of sauna

Week in Review (January 23 - January 29)

Tuesday (18,113 steps) - Work in the office. Lots of treadmill desk. Got to finish setting up my new file area since our physical file room is being demolished!! Hard to believe file rooms have become a thing of the past! At least for everyone except my estate attorney...

Took Olive for a walk when I got home.

Wednesday (20,801 steps) - Work in the office. Treadmill desk miles and did a Peloton ride at lunch. I wasn't planning on working hard, so I hadn't even changed into athletic clothes. Kinda backfired as I got really sweaty. Heather was still in town for work, so we met up for a quick beer before she had to head to the airport. 

Thursday (16,475 steps) - Work from home. Did an easy run with strides. I say "easy" because I took it pretty easy. Also, it was warm and I was happy to wear shorts! Took Olive for a walk at lunch, skipping the lake area because I knew it would be muddy.

Friday (19,643 steps) - Actually went to Wash Park and Stella's for the first time in a while and we had a big group - even though it was snowing. Treadmill desk and a busy day at work. Took Olive for a walk when we got home from happy hour.

Saturday (31,999 steps) - Had a long run to do but wanted to be done early and couldn't think of somewhere "fun" to go. We ended up going to Central Park so that we could run with Runners Edge. I've done this route before and it's not amazing. Still not amazing, but it was nice to run with friends. Plus, we also saw a pterodactyl nest:

And a weird painted sculpture. 

We went to Panera with Janet and Pete to get some food. I got the grilled cheese like I've always gotten in the past and was really disappointed with the size and taste. Just not the same as it used to be. Headed down the street to Station 26 for a beer and to register for Ghost Train! 

We both were able to get registered before it sold out - which happened in less than 45 minutes - pretty crazy. The beer wasn't very good, so we left to go home and walk Olive and then went to 4 Noses.

Sunday (15,327 steps) - Slept in a bit. Took Olive for a walk at the lake - the weather was sooo nice!

Had an hour run on schedule, and we couldn't decide where to go. Finally picked Rocky Flats, but on the drive there, I wondered if we could find the trail head Ariel has run from before. We managed to find it without too much trouble. WOW IS THIS SECTION SO MUCH HILLIER AND TECHNICAL! The north side you MAYBE get 100' of gain, whereas the south side we were about 400! Lots more walking than planned, some of these hills were really steep and rocky!

With that said, in the event we need to train for a race in Arizona again, we have the perfect rocky place to train. We went to 4 Noses, then spent the evening wondering where the weekend went. Watched a movie and look how close Olive and Batman got!

Monday (23,197 steps) - Having slept horribly, again, I was not amused to be up early for my annual obgyn appointment. Then, the coffee maker broke, so I had to go to Dunkin to get caffeinated. I had a run on schedule and hoped with the warmer temperatures for dry trails. The south side was fine, until I got closer to the hill. I turned around about 1/3 of the way up because I didn't want to do strides in the mud. Run overall was ok, but running fast seemed hard.

Took Olive for a walk (on the mud route), and then another walk after I got off work. Read my book while Ben worked on fixing the coffee maker (which he did!)

Stats:

• 145,555 steps
• 27.02 miles run
• 30 minutes of cardio
• 0 minutes of strength