Because Being Ordinary Is Boring: Tenderfoot

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Week in Review (June 30 - July 6)

Tuesday (11,680 steps) - Olive walk before going to work. Went to the gym at lunch and did a hike on the treadmill. Dinner? Good Fight?

Wednesday (13,016 steps) - Olive walk before going to work. Gym at lunch for some strength training and another treadmill walk. Went out in the afternoon for another walk around the block. Olive walk when I got home. Dinner? Good Fight?

Thursday (17,855 steps) - Up early so I took Olive for a long walk to the lake. Went for a short run later in the morning. Not bad for first run back after a 100 miler.

Walked Olive at lunch. Had my annual mammogram midafternoon - which thankfully is right down the street, so it's about a half hour of my day. Ben and I headed to Torchy's for dinner. Another Olive walk when we got home. Good Fight.

Friday (15,646 steps) - Had the day off for the 4th of July holiday, so took Olive for a quick walk before packing up our things to head up to the mountains for the weekend. We unfortunately hit a lot of traffic on the drive up. Quick trip to Outer Range and then stopped at Petco because I realized Olive was not wearing a patriotic bandana!

Ben and I took Olive for a walk on the trails near Tenderfoot and Straight Creek.

Lee picked up pizza for dinner and I took Olive for a walk around the block before it got too dark. Stayed up much later than normal.

Saturday (22,519 steps) - Up at 5:30 to get dressed and stop for coffee and a donut on the way to the annual Herman Gulch hike! Thankfully, there were plenty of parking spaces. Definitely was a concern with the 4th actually falling on a Saturday. We had a pretty good-sized group and headed up the hill in perfect weather.

The biggest excitement was seeing a young moose about halfway up the climb.

Olive was sad to not have any snow and the lake at the top was definitely much lower than I've ever seen.

Most of us headed down the hill to Cabin Creek for more socializing. Really warm and still no cover on the patio. Also, their customer service still sucks. We headed back up the hill to Outer Range for a drink and lunch. On the way to Lee's we stopped at the grocery store to pick up burgers and hot dogs to grill.

Very tired dog

Delicious food and Lee had a few other friends stop by.

Sunday (16,699 steps) - Woke up early and decided it was better to pack up and head home before all the holiday traffic started. We stopped at Dutch on the way home.

Ariel came by for a few minutes and went with me on walk with Olive. Got everything unpacked and started on laundry. Parry's for lunch because for some reason Ben felt like having a salad.

Also, them having air conditioning was an incentive also. Went for a long walk in the afternoon heat to get my steps in. Had to run to Costco to pick up some groceries since we haven't been to the store in so long. Pizza for dinner, Olive walk and Good Fight.

Monday (19,908 steps) - Actually set my alarm to get up and do a run since the forecast was not favorable for a lunch run. Also, with all the fires happening right now I figured it was better to get the run out of the way early. It wasn't bad, although it was definitely humid and hazy.

Ben and I took Olive for a short walk and then started work. Short walk with Olive at lunch. Did a few deliveries after I was off work and then made dinner. Good Fight.

Stats:

117,323 steps
16.23 miles run
20.94 miles walked
0 minutes of cardio
20 minutes of strength
0 minutes of sauna

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

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.