The past
week of workouts went pretty well!
Monday: AM
swim – 1250 meters
Tuesday: Ran
3 miles on Treadmill but felt really slow
Wednesday:
Spin for 45 min + Yoga
Thursday: AM
swim – 1000meter + Boston run à
Jen kept up the pace, so it felt good to go a bit faster
Friday: 30
min spin + 10 min Ellip
Sat: 5.5 mi
run – this was two parts plus 6 mi bike ride to REI
Part #1 was
a loop around Wash Park but then saw a dog on the loose and that took over!
Second part was the last 2.75 miles and showed my friend Pete around the
neighborhood
Sunday: 9 mi
hike – Bergen Peak – SLUSHY
Monday: REST
– was thinking I’d get up for a swim but I was beat…I’ll make it up tomorrow!
Totals: Run - 13 miles, Swim - 2250 meters, Bike - 23 miles, Other - Yoga & Ellip
Other highlights from the week:
- Salads for dinner! Made 3 great salads last week for dinner
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| Strawberries, Feta, Grilled Chicken, Spinach Salad + Lite Raspberry Vinaigrette |
- More snow for Denver
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| and it is snowing again...I'd say April snowiest so far! |
- Saturday day out in Denver!
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| One of the great bike paths in Denver - biking to REI |
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| Nuggets playoff game! We won! |
Bergen Peak
Hike!
Sunday was a
great day to be out! Kelsey and I had been planning on doing South Boulder
Peak, but after some research this week, the peak was closed due to fire last
year and the other peak, Bear Peak, was icy and heavily covered in snow. So,
instead, we decided to do Bergen Peak in Evergreen which AA and I did a few
months ago. It was 8.8 miles RT and 2,023 ft gain. My friend Pete from college was
visiting so he joined as well as the 3 pups! AA had rock training elsewhere in
Evergreen for Alpine :-)
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| Route up Bergen! |
We met at the
Dino lots at 10 AM and quickly made it to the TH and easily found a spot. We
parked off Stagecoach where the dog park is. I know it can be crowded, but we
didn’t have any problems. One big debate was whether or not to bring snow
shoes, we didn’t, but it was helpful to have yak traks.
Below is the
elevation profile. For 4.4 miles to the top, it is steep in some parts, and
just seems long in others! We were all dragging a little bit and stopped at a
little over 2 miles for a snack. I had a banana and it was nice to sit down.
Pete came from sea level so he wanted a little breather, although he was doing
great! The trail to this point wasn’t awful, packed snow, and what not. But the
next 2+ miles to the top was slushy, slushy, slushy! The trail had some nice
overlooks and was very pretty. Time to the top was 2 hours 20 minutes. Note: once
you think you are at the top you have to go an additional 1/10th a
mile over the radio tower to get to the sign!
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| Elevation Profile |
We ate lunch
QUICK and scurried down because we had dinner plans. The way down was way
worse, a lot of the packed snow from earlier had melted and it was super wet
and slushy. Luckily my boots did great the whole day, very happy with them. We
didn’t stop at all and made it down in 1 hour, 50 min – the slush definitely
slowed us down as I was worried about twisting my ankle!
The trail
was sparse – only saw about a dozen people but I’m sure as the trails dries up
it will definitely be more crowded! Great day out in the hills :-)
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| Ells Bells! |
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| Kels and I! |
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| Dogs of Bergen Peak |
PS don’t forget
sunscreen :-)
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| Most elevation on mile 3 |
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