Week ending 03MAY2026

Mon - 6 miles easy
Tue - 7 miles with GW easy
Wed - 7.6 miles draggin.
Thu - goose egg.  Thought I'd go in the evening but was too wiped at the end of the day to pull it off.  Didnt even walk the dog and went to bed at 8PM
Fri - AM - 10,3 miles, most of it with GW.  We did a 10 x a minute throughout the run to get in some hard breathing
Sat - went to Denver and ran with JZ around the Cherry Creek Rez.  Great way to start the day.  8.1 miles.  In the afternoon, I tacked on a ditch run - another 3.8.
Sun - 8.1 miles screwing around on the Mesa trail.  Sorta dead legged.  

Met up JT and his better half, Shad and Donnie over at Frolic Sunday morning.  JT was doing a 5k.  It was nice to shoot the grumpy old man breeze with the gents.  Debated if I am fit enough to pace Shad at HR.  I don't think I am.

50 something miles on the week - about 3500 of vert, and another dozen of walking

Week ending 26APR2026

57 miles on the week with some climbs over the weekend.

Mon - 7 miles, most of it with GW
Tue - 9.1 miles, most of it with LF
Wed - GW had a long one (20), I did 7.3 with him
Thu - 10 with LF
Fri - 7.6 with GW in the afternoon
Sat - Green.  Total struggle bus.  Up the front (Amp-Saddle-Greenman) and it was mostly a walk.  Came down Ranger Gregory but was moving so slowly on the rocks I decided to come down Flag road for a bit at the Ranger Cottage bail out.  I then picked my way back through King's to Gregory.  The one advantage I got moving so slow is got to see this big Tom above the Ranger Cottage. 

6.9 miles.  Knees pretty unhappy and over two hours

Sun - decided I needed to force more hills but chose for the Lion's Lair as a tamer version - less vert and less rock step ups.  9 miles.

Biggest vert week of the year - and it is not that much (over 6k).  13 miles of walking with Sage as well.  880 plus on the year.

Week ending 19APR2025

Back to BUR.  A big week of work there but LF kept me honest-on track with running.  

Mon - 6 miles in the evening after a day in the office and travel to SF (with LF)
Tue - AM with LF - 7.4 miles (all these are along the Bay Trail)
Wed - AM with LF - 7.6 miles.  Running is certainly easier at sea level and on this flat.  Just ending up cruising just over 8 min pace most of the time.
Thur - AM with LF.   He called out 10 and so it was 10.6 when we were done.
Fri - travel back to CO and I was beat.  And then it was snowing here.  And I worked when I got home.  I scrubbed the day.
Sat - some solo catch up.  Ran into Colton and Sharkey and so I hung onto them for a couple of miles.  9.2 miles.
Sun - on the ditch out to Interlocken.  10.3 miles to round out the week at 51 ish.  Nada for vert this week though.

Had some good sushi this week with Matt.

Week ending 12APR2026

Mon - 5 miles in Surprise before heading out
Tue - 15 miles with about 7 and change with LF and another 5 and change with GW - and then some other in transit miles.
Wed - with the Coyote Crew super early and draggin ... uuf. 7.1 miles
Thu - 7 miles with GW
Fri - Sanitas with Lucas, up the traditional route and then back down Lions Lair.  6.1 miles.
Sat - 7.7 miles in Broomfield
Sun - 7.5 miles around Green, up the Second Flatiron Trail, over Greenman, and then back down Ranger / Gregory (with some Chaut add on). 

Good week with over 5K of vert, some speedwork and a longish day.

Week ending 05APR2026

Mon - super easy 6 miles in the AM
Tue - 7.5+ miles in Broomy in the afternoon
Wed - travel to AZ - 5.3 miles after getting here
Thu - AZ - AM 7.6+ miles,  afternoon 3 miles with JZ
Fri - in Surprise - AM 5 miles with JZ, in the afternoon 2 miles over to the in-laws before dinner
Sat - with JZ in Surprise - 10 miles before it got to hot
Sun - in AZ, post first ever pickle ball session - 7.3 miles.  Pretty warm (upper 80s) so just tried to keep it in check via HR (first keeping it sub 130, then 135 ... eventually it did tick up to mid 150s).  

54 on the week.  All pretty slow, not a lot of vertical given schedule.

Week ending 29MAR2026

Mon - 4 miles easy solo on the ditch
Tue - 10 miles in the AM with LF
Wed- AM - 10 miles with GW; evening easy 5 miles
Thu - AM - 4 miles easy on the Ditch;PM - 4.3 miles in Broomville
Fri - Dillon, out and back with JZ - 8 miles
Sat - cooked my shit good with a run out of Ptarmigan.  I went up about three miles out of the lot before the blow downs and snow were too much.  I then turned around and made the wonderful error of taking a different trail (I decided to do this knowingly) but it brought me away from the lot. 9.6 miles, about 2K of vert but seriously cooked.
Sun - 7.2 with GW

62 miles on the week with about 4K of vert.  

Week ending 22MAR2026

16MAR Mon - evening in BUR, 6 miles slow
Tue - BUR AM, 8 miles
Wed - same as Tues
Thu - 7.75 miles, including stuff on the MPK roof
Fri - 6.85 miles, having more fun in MPK
Sat - 10.1 with LF back in Broomville
Sun - 6.5 on Green.

And a bunch of walking back and forth to the office.

Week ending 15MAR2026

Looking to shake this bronchitis / cold / whateverthehellitis.

Mon - 7.2 miles
Tue - 8 miles solo.  
Wed - 8 miles, did an overdue call with TWK
Thu - 6 miles solo
Fri - 9.2 miles in the AM, most of it with GW.  
Sat - 9.8, most of it with LF first thing the AM.
Sun - snowed on the overnight.  Got out in the AM.  8 miles out on Ditch and back into Interlocken.  Slooow.   

Nothing of quality or hill this week.  I am still a bit wrecked.  I have shaken most of this but there is still a fair amount of crud in the top of my lungs.   56 miles on the week.  Watch is telling my sleep and HRV are shit these days.  

Studio time is a wonderful grind.  Spent 10 hours there over the weekend.  For me that was three songs.  Oof.  

Caught Salmon Friends at Rails with the boyos Saturday night.  

Back to the Bay next week.  

Week ending 08MAR2026

Lousy week of running.  Got hammered with a cold / fever early in the week and it spiraled me for its entirety.

Mon - 4 miles out and back on the ditch.  ooof.  The crap started to build by the afternoon.  
Tue - off ... feverish. 
Wed - AM dragging - 6.2 miles with some with TZ
Thu - AM - GW joined me for part of his long run.  I did 4 miles. 
Fri - AM shakeout trying to move crud - 4 miles
Sat - it was nice out and I felt a little inspired.  Thought I might get out for 10.  After the first mile, which came easy, the bottom dropped out.  I could see the measured output of my HR notifying me that I was 
"zone 4"ing it while jogging at what should have been an easy pace.  Called it and made it a five miler.  
Sun - started with TZ and kept it easy after that.  7.5 miles.   Felt heavy legged and I could feel the HR looking to spike at easy HRs.  

Only 30 something on this week given the illness

Yeah, I signed up.  

Another 8.5 in walking. 

Week ending 01MAR2026

Another week in BUR.

My days in BUR are long.  I run early, walk about a mile to the office by 8, figure out my day over breakfast, meet / work / connect with people until about 7, and then walk another mile back to the hotel.  It is fulfilling but a long day.  

Mon - 7 miles in Broomfield - easy.  With LF.  
Tue - 10 miles with LF in BUR on the Bay Trail.  Ended up moving way better than expected and averaged 8:05.
Wed - 7 miles solo in BUR on the Bay Trail.  Slow
Thu - another 10 with LF but this one was even easier (HR based) and still averaged 8s.  The second half was all easy under 8.  
Fri - back from BUR and jogged super easy with TZ and KZ in the evening.  5 something miles.  
Sat - sort of dragging.  7 miles around Broomstock.  Watched the HS kiddos do their mile time trial.  
Sun - a bit of a cold in the mix for sure.  Headed to Shanahan Ridge and headed up Fern.  It has been a minute ... and I recalled why.  Popped pretty hard.  7.3 miles, 3100 something feet and way too long for it.  Ooof.  

Week was 54.6 miles, 4235 feet of climb,  and about 10 hours (with over a quarter of that coming on Sunday).  Another 10 plus miles of walking on the week.  

Week ending 22FEB2026

Bit of a hodge podge week ... 50 mile week.

Mon - 9 miles in Broomy with GW.
Tue - 6 miles in Dillon with the lad on the Rez path. 
Wed -  6 miles in Dillon, snowing.   Down to the Blue.
Thu - Nada.  Drove back down from Dillon
Fri - 5.4 miles with LF over Flag, down Gregory.  1700' of climb.
Sat - 10 miles in the afternoon, dragging.
Sun - 9.4 miles, some with GW in the AM.
Sun PM - 4.2 miles on the ditch.  Felt tired.

Week ending 15FEB2026

50.3 of running on the week.

Mon - 11 miles, with a good chuck with LF to start the day
Tue - 7 miles
Wed - 7 miles at the EOD, including 6 x "State Hill" - which was about 70-75 second for me.  I could feel this on the legs post
Thu - 7.1 miles, AM start of the day with GW
Fri - 4 miles, started with TZ and then got on calls for the rest.  Work killed me on this one .
Sat - 8 miles, out on Interlocken Ditch and back.  I was draggin' on this one.
Sun - 6 miles, over Flag, down Gregory and other messing around

Another half dozen plus miles of walking.  Shit for ancillary exercises.  TZ is on me about it but I have been a bum.  

Week ending 08FEB2026

A lighter week of sorts ...

Monday - 7 miles with GW
Tuesday - off.  Got a knee shot.  

Wednesday - 7 miles with GW
Thursday - 7.1 miles
Friday - 7.5 miles with GW
Saturday - 7 miles, including 8 by Stonehenge Hills.  
Sunday - decided I might as well do Green given the low mileage week.  As I started I noticed JV and BW in the meadow and so I was given the gift of the round trip with them.  5.5 miles.

About another 7-8 miles of walks in there too.

Album recording is plugging along. 

Week ending 01FEB2025

60 mile week. 

January - finished with 258 miles according to Strava.  Only 9000 something feet of climb though - reflecting my not heading to the hills of Boulder because of snow and trips to LVS and the Bay. 

Mon - travel to BUR, 4
Tue - AM with LF on Bay Trail.  10.2 miles. 
Wed - AM with LF but NK and LK also joined for a few in the middle.  11.1 miles.  Bay Trail of course.  
Thu - AM with LF on the Bay Trail - 10 miles.  
Fri -  Back to CO.  6 miles in the afternoon.  Stiff.
Sat - 9.4 miles, out to Interlocken and back.  Shaking the trip.  
Sun - 9.1 miles.  Started with TZ for the first two.  Heavy legged. 

Last January was 2 miles, so this January is progress over that.  Today marks 1 year since my dad passed.  It feels like that amount of time.  Still haven't put together mentally how when he was my age I am now, I was the age of my daughter.  And he seemed so much older at that point.  

Week ending 25JAN2026

60.4 mile week.  Was a tad challenged at the end of the week with a single digit cold snap.

Mon - 11.2 miles in the AM, most with LF
Tue - 8.1 miles, most with GW in the AM

Wed - 7 miles in the AM solo
Thu - 9 miles on an early start with LF
Fri - got out in the AM solo to bang out 3 on the ditch; in the PM connected with GW and got another 6.  It was cold.  
Sat - 7.2 with JZ out to Interlocken and back
Sun - 8.4, first mile with TZ.  

Back to SF next week - so will see what I can pull off with some warmer temps / work challenged schedule.