Because Being Ordinary Is Boring: Wash Park

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Week in Review (May 26 - June 1)

Tuesday (10,246 steps) - My main attorney is still on vacation so I took a bonus work from home day so I could keep an eye on Robin - who is doing MUCH better, thankfully.

Did a Peloton ride before logging in for the day. Took Olive for a longer walk at lunch and got in some strength training.

Took Olive for another walk after I got off work. The chickens were out at the house by the park.

Dinner and Good Wife.

Wednesday (16,475 steps) - Olive walk before going to work in the office. Even though I should be tapering for a race, Greg had me scheduled for a workout. Once again, the first 4 (of 5) reps went really well, then I was just hanging on to get through it. It's days like this that I cannot even IMAGINE ever running "fast" again.

Olive walk when I got home. Dinner and Good Wife.

Thursday (12,973 steps) - Unfortunately woke up well before my normal WFH alarm, so I took Olive for a walk and did a short Peloton ride before working. Olive had her grooming appointment, so I walked her over for that and got some strength training done. Picked her up from her appointment - she is so soft and fluffy after getting trimmed. Met Ben at Torchy's for our normal Thursday night dinner. Thought about walking Olive again but it started raining. Good Wife.

Friday (16,330 steps) - Woke up with enough time to meet the group at Wash Park for a walk. Unfortunately, Kristin's dog bit a puppy on the walk, which was stressful/scary for everyone.

Went to work and met up with Erica for a longer walk at lunch with Olive. After work we met Ben at 4 Noses for happy hour. Home and Ben ordered in food for dinner.

Good Wife.

Saturday (74,434 steps) - Woke up well before my alarm and ended up having time to walk Olive before I headed out for North Fork 50k (separate recap).

I was SO thirsty after finishing, and I had to stop in Aspen Grove to get something to drink (which ended up just being at Safeway). I took Olive for a walk when I got home and Ben had picked up pizza for a very late lunch/early dinner. Lounged around the rest of the evening, Good Wife.

Sunday (18,931 steps) - I had an alarm set because I was supposed to meet up with Joni for a hike, but she cancelled because she woke up not feeling well. I took Olive for a walk while Ben went to pick up Dutch Bros. I was pretty sore from my race so we didn't want to do anything crazy hard with Olive. We decided to go to Golden and found a new to us trail to walk on (Welch trail and the Peaks to Plains) - it was quite nice!!

Olive did not enjoy the see-through steps or bridge, so I had to carry her. We picked up Ariel since we were in the area and went into town for ice cream and a stop at the Bivy Bar for Ben to get a beer.

Home for dinner and we finally finished Good Wife - horrible finale...

Monday (10,200 steps) - Olive walk before clocking in for the day. Had to take Robin back to the vet for her checkup. Bad news - another expensive vet bill. Good news - her kidney numbers improved a LOT. She unfortunately projectile vomited on the drive home. That meant that I had to give her a bath - her first EVER and clean out my car. Boo.

She looks even skinnier when she is wet :( She did actually gain almost a half-pound since the last ER visit

Took Olive for a walk at lunch.

Wanted to walk Olive and maybe do some deliveries after work but we had a hail risk so stayed in. Ben ordered in Panda for dinner. We watched the Cocodona lottery livestream and started Good Fight - which is the spinoff for Good Wife.

Stats:

159,589 steps
41.48 miles run
19.78 miles walked
30 minutes of cardio
40 minutes of strength
0 minutes of sauna

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Week in Review (March 17 - March 23)

Tuesday (16,888 steps) - Olive walk before going to work. I had to go to the gym early to do the StairMaster since it was Erica's last day (sob) and we had plans to go to lunch.

As soon as I got upstairs to drop off my gym bag it was time to head out. We went across the street to Syrup - a breakfast(ish) place that I've never been to. Lunch was fabulous!

Did a delivery on my way home. Ben and I took Olive for a walk to the lake. Ben ordered in Panda for dinner (yum). Good Wife.

Wednesday (22,295 steps) - Olive walk before work. Busy busy busy day at work with one of Erica's attorneys on my desk (hopefully just temporarily). I had to drop off a settlement check and decided to just incorporate an additional walk while I was already out.

Headed up to Boulder after work for my hill repeats.

Thankfully this is the workout where the intervals get shorter as the workout continues, so once I got through the first few, it wasn't terrible. I was in the middle of my last repeat when the run club started barreling towards me. Wow, they are all really fast! I briefly stopped by the store to say hi to Tyler and Trish - I haven't been in a LONG time and there were SO many people - most of the club was outside, which I'm not used to. Good Wife.

Thursday (14,724 steps) - Got my Peloton ride and shower in before I clocked in for work. Took Olive for a nice, long walk at lunch. VERY warm day.

Strength training in the afternoon. Did a few deliveries after work since Ben was a little late getting out of the office before we met at Torchy's for dinner. Took Olive for a walk after we got back home. Good Wife.

Friday (13,341 steps) - Wash Park! Was a beautiful morning and glad that I had brought a bit of a heavier jacket since it was a little chilly.

Took Olive for our regular walk at lunch. After work we went to 4 Noses. Randomly ran into Doug and Kristin. Food truck was running behind so we headed home and ordered Chili's for dinner. More Good Wife.

Saturday (39,638 steps) - Took Olive for a walk. Everyone else bailed on our weekend run so Ben and I headed up to Boulder for the planned route of Walker Ranch. I had plans on also doing some of Eldorado Canyon for more time/vert and Ben was just going to do the 7.8(ish) mile loop. We parked just after 9 and it was already very warm. We managed to run into someone that had run Summit 200 in the parking lot and chatted very briefly with him. Definitely was concerned by how warm it already felt and we had just started.

I split off from Ben at just about 5 miles. I was regretting my decision to do extra almost immediately, but then I thought I remembered that the lower part was the "hardest" and most vert. I told him I would only be an hour behind him, all while knowing I was going to probably do more than that.

I turned around at the same place Ben and I did the last time, the sign requiring a permit to go into Eldorado Canyon.

By the time I got back to the Walker Ranch loop, I was BEAT. I was really hot and I was running out of water. Randomly ran into Rebecca when I had just a couple miles left. I finally was able to get some more running in towards the end. Got back to the truck and Ben was definitely concerned since I ended up being about 90 minutes behind him. We stopped at Murphy's to get lunch.

Planned on taking Olive just for a short walk and she tricked me into taking her to the lake - I assume she wanted to go swimming since it was nearly 90 degrees. Zero recollection of the rest of the evening, but I assume we watched Good Wife.

Sunday (15,979 steps) - Up to Boulder for our vert day. Since it was a nice day and we were up later than usual, we went back to our usual route where we don't have to fight for parking. All of us were a little tired on this one and apparently this was the only picture I took the whole day.

Rails End on the way home and Ben ordered in Little Caesar's stuffed pretzel crust pizza for a snack since we didn't like the food truck. We watched Roofman - which I actually really liked, and then a bit of Good Wife.

Monday (22,402 steps) - Blah, how is it Monday already?? A cool morning and I was very busy right off the bat with work. Ariel said she was coming over late morning so I took Olive for a long walk to the lake. She brought Dutch with her when she showed up and made us cheesy eggs for breakfast. I went for my run at lunch and she took her car to the shop since the oil leak is bad. Couldn't get the leak fixed but found out she has air bubbles in a tire and had to order a new one. Always something.