Nice Relaxing weekend :-)

The weather this weekend wasn't its usual awesomeness for Colorado - but it was sunny Saturday morning and on Sunday and about 60! For some reason my watch hasn't been around - Saturday morning it wasn't charged and I forgot to bring it to work today - but I got by!

Had a great long run on Saturday morning with AA! My watch was dead by the time I first looked at it, but I since I was running a familiar route I was able to do the math in my head - which is fun anyways :-) My plan was to do 6 miles again this week, 4 miles run - walk - 2 miles run. However, I wasn't quite sure where the four mile mark was and decided to keep going, so I actually ended up running 5 miles, walk .2, run 2 miles = 7 miles! I was super happy about it :-) I'm not exactly sure what my pace was since I had no watch but my rough calculations put it at 11:15 pace for the running. I'm OK with that!

Sunday I went on a leisurely hike with Kels and Kat to Mt Falcon - which is part of Jefferson County Open Space. It was less than 4 miles and only about 90 minutes - but it was a great day and the doggies loved to be outside :-)

Near Red Rocks! Address: 21004 Mount Falcon Road, Indian Hills CO 80454  

 

Great views of the Rockies! Ellie - what cha looking at?

Kat, Kels and Panda - Some old ruins of a mansion up there! Hi Henry!

Then today work got stressful. I brought my bike to work so I could go to a loop at Cherry Creek. However my to-do list already had 6 things by early morning and a meeting in the morning popped up and I had another right after lunch so there wasn't time to go in between! I know the later the day gets, the lower the motivation is. I was deciding between later afternoon versus after work when I realized I could just bike home instead! I mapped it out and it was 16.3 miles! You'll see from the profile below - it is all grading downhill, but I still got a great burn and there are definitely some climbs. I decided to take the Cherry Creek trail the whole way so I wouldn't have to deal with any traffic even though its a few miles out of the way. So the first 15 minutes of my ride were the same leaving from work as if I were going to the park! It ended up taking an hour and 2 minutes! It was gorgeous out too. I'll have to ride TO work soon, I imagine that will take much longer with the climbs and will be closer to 90 minutes! Below is the map and elevation (I forgot my watch so this is mapmyrun.com). Not too exciting.

Bike from Work to Home

The 5 mile race is Saturday morning so I plan to have Friday as a rest day. Tomorrow I am hoping for short 3 miler at work, a long ride on Wednesday, another short run on Thursday and hopefully at least one day of swimming!

Yesterday I went 'blog shopping' as Aaron called it. I am trying to find some other blogs to read of people with similar interests, and hopefully in Colorado (although I do not discriminate). I started following a few so I hope to catch up on some reading this week as well!