Week in Review (December 3 - December 9)

Tuesday (14,928 steps) - Walked Olive before going to work in the office. Gym at lunch - including StairMaster again - this time climbed the Seattle Space Needle.

Also did some strength/core. Took Olive for a walk after work and did some driving. Ben had a work dinner so I ate alone and watched a cheesy horror movie.

Wednesday (18,145 steps) - Olive really loves her Advent! After just a few days she definitely looks forward to getting it.

Took Olive for a walk before going to work in the office. ALSO, finally Spotify Wrapped! I think my overall listening was down, which is weird. It seems like I am always listening to something.

No surprise to me that Taylor Swift was my number 1 artist and top two songs! I was a bit surprised by number 4 song, but everything else tracked.

I had a run at lunch. Thankfully, since I am still in recovery it wasn't a). that long of a run and b). nothing I was truly dreading. I had a warm up and 4x1 "sprints" - which worked out to about a 3 mile run. Wooo. Did a core video after I got back to the office. Ben had stayed home from work because he was still not feeling great from being sick (food poisoning? I felt fine the whole time) - so I did a few deliveries, took Olive for a walk and then ate alone again since he stomach was iffy.

Thursday (16,618 steps) - Work from home! I went out for my run pretty early. Weather was quite lovely and the run wasn't bad at all. Yay for finally feeling good and recovered.

Took Olive for a walk when I got back.

I just love that her shadow makes her look like a wolf or wild dog when she is really an adorable, well-groomed muppet.

Did a few deliveries and then met Ben at Torchy's for dinner. 

Friday (10,550 steps) - Took Olive for a walk before going into work. I went ahead and brought her in so everyone could see her Grinch outfit. She was definitely a hit!

She was a bit more restless than she usually is at work, so I don't know that I will bring her back for a while. Did some driving and Ben picked up pizza for dinner. At some point in the last week we finished up Ted Lasso (what a great show!) and are now watching Yellowstone.

Saturday (19,295 steps) - Procrastinated a bit getting out the door, but we headed up to Boulder for what I thought was a 6ish mile loop with Olive. Definitely more ice on the lower trails than I expected! I had promised "mostly" hiking since that's what I had on schedule.

There was also a decent amount of mud, which no one likes.

Best attempt at a selfie - Olive is barely visible behind me, but at least she is facing forward.

We did do some running, but not much. After we finished (route was actually 6.7 miles) we went to 4 Noses. It was Olive's chance to meet Santa!! I paid $10 for a professional picture, although I don't have it yet. (Edit to add!)

We ended up going to Parry's for dinner and then more Yellowstone.

Sunday (14,237 steps) - Ben got us Dutch Bros. in the morning while Olive and I lounged around the house. Isn't she cute?

Just had a short run on schedule, but we waited too long and the clouds rolled in and the wind picked up. It wasn't as horrible as we feared, but it also wasn't great. Took Olive for a walk. We headed up to Lisa's house to help her put up her medal hangers and buckle box. It unfortunately took forever, so we stopped at 4 Noses for a beer and dinner on the way home. Late night...

More Yellowstone.

Monday (15,246 steps) - Work from home. Went for my recovery run very early. Another chilly, cold morning. Bah winter.

Went to Golden to pick up Ariel for winter break, took Olive for a walk. Then went back with Ariel for Qdoba and to get the rest of her stuff.

Did a few deliveries after work and we had a nice family dinner - happy to have her back home for a bit! Yellowstone.

Stats:

• 109,019 steps
• 19.15 miles run
• 13.87 miles walked
• 25 minutes of cardio
• 40 minutes of strength

Week in Review (November 28 - December 4)

Tuesday (14,729 steps) - Peloton rides before work. Had another glitchy where I couldn't get the video I wanted to do to play. I don't have any updates so not sure what the issue is. Walked quite a bit on the treadmill during the day and did an upper body video at lunch. I definitely will be sore from this one. It was also... Spotify unwrapped day!

Definitely surprised that all my top songs were country!

Not as surprised about the top artists, except for Pink Floyd, which I didn't think I listened to nearly as much this year. ALSO exciting is there is finally info on Candice's new 300+ mile race. This is gonna be "fun"

AND, I got a cute new nameplate at work, haha

Took Olive for a walk before Ariel and I headed to the school for a meeting about her upcoming trip to France. We met Ben at Buffalo Wild Wings to celebrate A getting into the Colorado School of Mines. 

Wednesday (21,626 steps) - Work in the office. More treadmill desk while working, read my book at lunch. Headed up to Louisville to get my speed work done. Workout wasn't nearly as bad as I feared, although I ended up running longer than planned because I misjudged the distance of the area I was running. 

Nice night and I stayed at the store for a bit socializing. 

Thursday (20,571 steps) - Work from home. Went for an easy 45 minute run at lunch (which actually felt pretty easy). Took Olive for a walk. And in OTHER running excitement, Summit 200 finally (publicly) release a screenshot of the course. Wooo! 

Convinced Ariel to join me in Belmar for run club. Not a lot of people there, unfortunately, and it was chilly walking with Mo and Colfax. 

Friday (14,656 steps) - Wash Park - with special guest, Olive! New holiday drink menu at Stella's. Yum!

Joyce was going to be on vacation and Nicole thought it would be fun to bring her into the office, so she got a long walk before we went in. Olive enjoyed walking around and saying hi to everyone. She was so well-behaved! 

And I finally got my yoga ball to put on my treadmill so I don't have to keep moving it. I still have my regular chair, but this is going to be a game changer. 

We went for a walk with Nicole late morning. Headed home to work the rest of the day remote. Lisa came to pick me up to go to Colorado Springs. A group of us signed up to run a Saturday morning race and decided to get a hotel the night before. We got to packet pick up in the Springs around 4:30. Everyone else arrived shortly thereafter. We were all hungry and decided to go to BJ's for dinner since it was close. I got my trusty jalapeno cheeseburger. Delicious!

Alison and Janet were sharing a birthday weekend, and Janet had made delicious cupcakes for us to have after dinner. Yum!

No picture of all of us, which is a shame. By this time it was "late" so we went to the hotel. Lisa had booked a suite for me, her and Christina to share. I got my own room (yay!!!). We stayed up chatting until maybe 9:30. I had a bit of trouble falling asleep - I blame that on the room being much warmer than I normally sleep in.

Saturday (29,146 steps) - Colorado Cold Rush half marathon - recap separate.

We decided we would just head right back to Denver after everyone had finished. Once I got home I took a quick shower and then we went to Torchy's so I could finally get something to eat. Instead of starting with Fargo, we rented a movie - "The Fall" - WAY different than I expected, and it was pretty good! 

Sunday (18,918 steps) - I had an hour recovery run on schedule, which I was dreading. I had actually "raced" (versus just running like I normally do) and I was pretty sore. We did a loop that was semi dirt and paved. The paved was actually worse since it hadn't been plowed yet.

I was definitely tired during this and it felt like a massive effort. Really happy to be done with it. Took Olive for a walk. We then had a busy afternoon - first we had to go to Costco for groceries. We then went to 4 Noses so Ben could get a beer (I'm still not drinking for a bit, so I just had a Topo) before going to Target. So many errands, but we needed our sport laundry detergent and of course ended up with a bunch of other stuff we didn't need. Fargo.

Monday (20,343 steps) - Work from home. Olive spent a lot of time with me in the office, which she has been doing more and more lately.

Went out for my run and it was unfortunately really windy. I didn't feel horrible, but still pretty sore and tired from Saturday's race. In addition to the windy, the mud was actually pretty bad since it has warmed up since we got snow. 

Then I took Olive for a walk. Because of the mud I had encountered during my run, we did the "mud" route, which took us by this house that I normally only see on our really short night walks.

And another fun thing from Cocodona, they used me and Ben running through Buffalo Park in the start of their newest reel. 

Short dog walk with Ariel and more Fargo.

Stats:

• 139,989 steps
• 33.21 miles run
• 30 minutes of cardio
• 30 minutes of strength