Day One Hundred Twenty One

Ran for 1:20.  This was first, nice run with my slow dog.  Just stayed around the neighborhood.

Swam 2800.  I am getting sick of the pool.  My shoulder are sore enough that I will not swim on Sunday.  The repetition of the laps is killing my soul.

Cycled 2 hours.  Fine, but I had a Gatorade prime to start and two gu's on the ride.  I just needed a little pep in my legs.  I guess I needed a lot of pep in my legs.  Calories canceled out, I only worked out hard enough on the bike to cancel out all of the gu's and prime I took.  Nothing gained or lost.  I was glad when it was over but it was not great or bad.

Day One Hundred and Twenty

Nothing.  I was at school all day and did not have time to train.  YIKES.  Tomorrow I will make it up.

Day One Hundred Nineteen

Run/Swim

I swam yesterday and today.  Boring to swim in the pool.  I just look at a black line and go back and forth.  My shoulders are getting sore and since I have nothing else to focus on they seem extremely sore.

Quick run....Samara continues to be slow

Day One Hundred Eighteen

Bike -

Since I have a flat tire and I want to feel secure that I have patched it correctly before I take it out, I went for a mountain bike ride.  It was nice, just up and back. 

Let it be know I did not patch the tube correctly.  It could not have been done because I rode on it for too long while it was flat and destroyed it.  oops

Day One Hundred Seventeen

BEST RUN OF MY LIFE.  Oh how I love sea level.  I had to pick up Samara in Santa Cruz so I ran at Nisene Marks.  I had a two hour run.  I loved it. I could breath and was out of breath because I continually was challenging myself, not because I was in thinner air.  The run was going to be a rather flat loop that I would do twice, but I just kept adding climbs and instead of doing a second loop I decided to run up the ridge trail for 30 minutes.  It was WONDERFUL!!!  Also I have been great at ending on time, my two hour run finished at 2:00:15 - I am a crazy good time keeper.

Day One Hundred Eleven to One Hundred Sixteen

There is no sense in trying to go back and recap all of our trip to CO, so I will give you a glimpse of the days with some pictures.

There were a few rides, few hikes and one swim.  I was active the whole trip, but not up to training standards.  The goal was not to lose the fitness I have spent the last few months working for.

This is Chrissy and I on a ride with Ryan.  It may look like I was having fun, but I was not.  As we know the first two days of workouts were difficult with altitude so I was a little down on myself.  We were on this bike path so you can only ride two up, the third person has to follow behind.  Ryan started up front with Chrissy, I trailed behind. This was fine, I was content just keeping pace with them.  Within the first ten minutes of this ride Ryan dropped back and asked if I was okay that I 'was not even keeping up with his coasting speed.'  Geeze that was a blow I did not need.  I felt I was keeping up fine, I just had to stay back as a courtesy to riders that may be coming the other direction.  Ryan felt he was just coming back to check on me and he did not appreciate my frustration at his statement. I felt he was being rather rude.  Anyway we rode for a hour and 45 minutes.  Ryan up with Chrissy most of the time and me following behind.  The only communication between him and me was him asking me to smile for this picture. So if you want to know what my fake smile looks like....check out that picture!

This is a real smile!  As sports fans we went to a Rockies game, wanted to check out the ballpark.  Great fun!  Loved the ballpark and being there with friends!  We were with Chrissy and a couple - Lindley and Ryan.  At the top of the 9th the couple thought they should head back home so they could be rested up for work.  Ryan and I never leave a game early, but the Rockies were down 3-9, and we are not Rockies fans so we all took off at the same time.  No biggie.  Ryan Chrissy and I had come in our own car, so there was really no reason for us to leave, we just did.  Bad decision.  The Rockies had a the best ninth inning comeback in franchise history and tied the MLB record.  Rockies ended up winning 12-9.  We missed it, but we still had a great time.   Check it out

We checked out a few breweries in town.  One day I did not train I just tasted beer.  Maybe not the best decision, but we are on vacation.

We went on a few hikes.  Fun to see new places and spend time absorbing them.  The area was beautiful.  Got to experience beautiful warm sun along with rain, hail and thunder storms.  The last picture is of us picking up the pace so we do not get stuck high up while the lightning passes.

The morning before we left I went on a ride with Lindley.  A couple of hours to ride and visit.  Very nice.  After Ryan Chrissy and I toured Fat Tire Brewery.  Great last day in Fort Collins.