Week in Review (June 9 - June 15)

Tuesday (14,593 steps) - Peloton and Olive walk (with Ben!) before going to work. 

Gym at lunch for StairMaster, weights and a treadmill walk. 

Went for another quick walk in the afternoon just to get out of the office. Olive walk when I got home from work. Ariel came over for dinner and to spend the night! Good Fight.

Wednesday (21,861 steps) - Olive walk before work. Ariel was taking Olive to HER work for the day, fun! 

Olive the intern!

Long walk at lunch. After work I went home to change and Ben and I went to the lake for my hill workout. Even though it was 90 degrees it wasn't horrible. 

After dinner I took Olive for another walk. Good Fight.

Thursday (18,433 steps) - Ugh, I woke up hours before I needed to be up - annoying!! Finished the book I was reading and went for my run. It was quite a nice morning and the run went well, but a heart rate glitch early in the run had Garmin giving me a horrible performance score - good thing it doesn't actually matter. 

Got my strength training in and Ben and I took Olive for a long walk to the lake at lunch. Did a delivery before meeting Ben at Torchy's for our normal Thursday dinner date. Got another good offer on my way home and unfortunately closed my thumb in my car door (??) - hurt so bad and my thumb immediately turned purple and began to swell. Olive walk and packed for our weekend camping trip before more Good Fight.

Friday (16,091 steps) - Once again, up early. That meant we had time to go to Wash Park for the group walk before going to work. 

Olive and I went for our lunch walk early to beat the heat. 

I left work a little bit early so I could do last minute packing and we could head up to Summit County to hopefully avoid traffic. I still had to bring my laptop to work in the car for about a half hour, but it was better than nothing. Thankfully there was basically no traffic and we were on the road in no time. Of course our first stop was Outer Range, but we didn't stay too long and we were at our campsite by 7 with plenty of time for Ben to make dinner - hot dogs! 

Long day and we didn't stay up late. 

Saturday (28,602 steps) - Quick lap around the campground with Olive and coffee before I headed out for an hour(ish) run on the rec path. 

We had hoped to do a fun loop up near Ten Mile, but the road we needed to go up was closed. Instead, we drove up Miner's Creek and did a figure 8 loop that I created off Gaia. It was pretty great! Seemed to be relatively primitive single track and we only saw one bike the whole time! 

First columbine of the year!!

Outer Range, and I had an ahi tuna bowl. Lee came by the campsite to hang out for a bit to hang out, burgers for dinner. 

We had a little bit of rain on and off and we were in bed even EARLIER. 

Sunday (14,951 steps) - Quick Olive walk around the campsite and coffee. We had been on the fence about heading home and I decided I'd rather go home. We opted to go into Frisco and do a "quick" trip up to Mt. Royal. While I've been on the lower trails plenty of times, I've only been to the summit of Royal once. 

This is the tallest sign I've ever seen

We hurried back to load up the camper since check out was 11 am. Stopped by Outer Range for a quick lunch before going home. 

Surprisingly little traffic for leaving around 12:30 on a Sunday! Got everything unpacked and spent the afternoon unwinding from the weekend. Ben ordered in pizza for dinner and Good Fight.

Monday (22,195 steps) - Olive walk in the morning with Ben before I logged in for the day. Ben and I went for an easy late morning run.

We also took Olive for a long walk. All the cacti are blooming AND we saw our first owls of the year - much later than usual and we have been worried about them! 

I have been talking about it for ages, but I finally went through and decided to retire a bunch of running shoes. I seem to be collecting them and these are ones that I just haven't been wearing. I have been hesitant to get rid of them because they still "seem fine" - but it just doesn't really make sense to hold on to them. 

After work I did a few deliveries and then Ben and I walked down the street for an impromptu sushi dinner! 

Took Olive for another walk when we got back. Relaxing and Good Fight.

Stats:

• 136,726 steps
• 26.09 miles run
• 20.4 miles walked 
• 40 minutes of cardio
• 50 minutes of strength
• 0 minutes of sauna

Week in Review (April 29 - May 5)

Tuesday (15,232 steps) - Peloton and Olive walk before going to work. Gym session during lunch. Back to the grind on the StairMaster.

Walked Olive after work and then Ben and I went to a new sushi restaurant in town. Unlimited sushi meant that we were both STUFFED afterwards.

Criminal Minds!

Wednesday (23,066 steps) - Walked Olive before going to work. Went for my run at lunch, first workout since Monster. It went pretty well and the weather was good. Torchy's for dinner and more Criminal Minds.

Thursday (10,948 steps) - Work from home. Long walk with Olive on the bike path since I figured the trails would be soggy. Peloton ride and some cross training. Met Ben at Costco so we could pick up some groceries. By the time we got done we decided to just grab a pizza because we didn't feel like cooking. 

Friday (13,731 steps) - Wash Park with the gang. Fairly uninteresting day at work, as you can tell by this picture of Olive.

Olive and I met Ben at 4 Noses for happy hour.

We felt like a burger for dinner and found out that Hops n' Drops recently closed. Wth! Ended up taking Olive home and going to Hoffbrau. The food is ok, but the restaurant is a little too "much" for us (loud and lots of people). Criminal Minds!

Saturday (26,078 steps) - Took Olive for a walk and then we headed to Golden to meet up with Larry. We picked Apex since none of us had been there in a while. The lot was crazy full, although we did start relatively late. We went up Argos side (to get more miles/vert).

Universally we decided to skip going to the "trail head" at Lookout and just headed straight for Enchanted. 

Not nearly as many people on this segment and still very grateful that we have alternating use days on this part so we don't have to worry about getting hit by a mountain biker.

Went to Parry's afterwards for a beer and snack before heading home to walk Olive. 

Spent some time working in the yard before making dinner. Finished the newest Handmaid's Tale and watched G-20, which was decent.

Sunday (12,215 steps) - Weren't sure if we needed to help A out with moving so we headed up to Boulder early for our activity of the day - Mount Sanitas! Olive did very well for her first summit.

The more technical part of the descent wasn't super fun with lots of people and Olive not navigating the best but things improved a bit when we got to the road.

She wasn't super interested in running, so it took longer than we hoped. I was supposed to hit 1,500' of climbing for the day so we started to head back up to hit my vert goal.

Discovered that Vision Quest was dog friendly (even inside!) so we headed there for a beer.

No food nearby so we went to Twisted Pine. The food was good, the beer was ok and the service was... meh. I think it was just the one guy working at the bar and he also had to put in all the food orders, so he was a little grumpy.

No real recollection of what we did when we got home. At some point we made dinner and then watched The Last Breath, also good. Apparently I've also never watched Parks and Recreation, so we started that, getting through the first episode.

Monday (17,295 steps) - Work from home. Rain was in the forecast so I got my run out of the way mid morning. 

Took Olive for a walk. After lunch I drove down to Big O to get my tire looked at. It's been a while, but my rear passenger tire has been losing air. They were able to get me in right away and were able to get it patched. Did some deliveries after work before meeting Ben at Torchy's for a Cinco de Mayo dinner of queso and a taco bowl. More Parks & Rec.

Stats:

• 118,565 steps
• 21.35 miles run
• 18.4 miles walked
• 50 minutes of cardio
• 50 minutes of strength