Green Mt. Loop Run

I had the intention of running S. Boulder, Bear, & Green today, but a late night movie put a nix on that. I finally left the house at 11:00 and settled on the Green Mt. loop. I started at Chataqua ran to Bear Canyon, up to the top of Green Mt, down through Gregory Canyon back to Chataqua. It was another beautiful day.

With the exception of the ever present wind....



One of the hardships of living in CO. ;-)

A Beautiful Day in Boulder

You never know what you are going to get with the weather in CO. Earlier in the week we had 80+ MPH winds which knocked out the power for 14hrs at the house. I woke up the next morning freezing cold. The wind died down, but it was snowing. It gave me a creepy armagedon kinda feeling.

Today brought blue skies and pretty warm temps. I decided to sleep in and get a nice run up Bear Canyon in before going to church this evening. Bear Canyon is one of my favorite canyons to run in around Boulder. It's pretty runner friendly, the switchbacks aren't so steep that you have to walk them. And, the views aren't too bad either.


The only downside to a warm day in the middle of winter...

It sucks to get a pound of this stuck to the bottom of each shoe...makes running not so fun! Soon enough I went from mud to the snow. It was another great day in Bear Canyon.

A Quick (hopefully) Post

I just bought a new and more importantly faster laptop on Friday. I'm hoping it will make it much faster to type up a blog, instead of the all day affair it was with my old laptop....the reason I quit blogging. So, to test it out, I'll give a quick recap of today.

I spent yesterday volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and hung sheet rock the entire day. Of course my group was working on the first floor which meant a lot of ceiling to hang. By the end of the day I didn't think I could lift my arms up over my head anymore. Conveniently enough I had plans to ice climb today.

My alarm went off at the ungodly time of 3:30am. Just reaching over to turn my alarm off caused my upper back and neck to hurt.....I didn't have much enthusiasm for the day ahead. We were pleasantly suprised at the TH. Usually there are gale force winds blowing at this TH and this morning there were none! And when we got to the ice, the sky was blue and the ice was glistening (the weather forcast said 80% chance of snow and -22 windchill...there wasn't even a breeze blowing).

We decided to go to Jewell Lake since Prakash and I hadn't ice climbed in a bit and it was Shawn's first time. Although, he looked like he had done it before. We climbed for a few hours and got quite a few laps in. A combination of hanging sheet rock yesterday and a lot of tool swinging today, my arms were done and the clouds were finally starting to move in so we packed up and made our way out. Frozen alpine lakes make for great winter shortcuts.

It turned out to be a great day in the mountains. And, this blogging is much faster on the new laptop!