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.

Week ending 18JAN2026

Mon - 7 miles
Tue - 9.1 miles, a bunch with LF
Wed - AM with the Coyote Crew:  6 on 3:30, 75 seconds rest.  8 miles.
Thu - 15 miles!  A handful with LF and then over to meet GW for a bunch.  
Fri - late in the day and a cold front blew in.  Kept it short - 4 miles.
Sat - 8.7 miles with GW on most.  
Sun - 8.2 miles out and back on the Interlocken Ditch, doing 10 by minute on, minute off on the return.

Long overdue I guess but I landed a lifetime pass to the National Parks as a veteran.  Didn't know that was a thing.  

60.2 miles on week.  

Week ending 11JAN2026

Most of the week was in Vegas for CES.  

Vegas is Vegas.   A strip of ridiculous opulence, glitz and wealth adjacent to all the issues a city and each of us face otherwise.  

Two days of the crush of humanity of CES was more than enough for my wee brain.  

Monday - 6 miles solo, sorta dragging.
Tuesday - zero.  Travelled to LAS, had a full day.  Walked a stupid amount.
Wednesday - 6:30 start with LF and did 8.6 out from the Strip to UNLV.
Thursday - another 6:30 start with LF and did 10 heading west from the Strip.
Friday - back to CO.  Tired and 6 miles
Saturday - got some new Nike Vomero Plus.  Tested them out on the ditch sidewalk up into Interlocken.  Nice.  10 miles.
Sunday - 10 miles, about half of it on the front with GW.

So - a bit over a 50 mile week.  Nothing great on intensity but my runs with LF end up being a bit faster than I would self select for an easy run.  

Connect has me at 5.5 miles of walks but that is what I fired the watch up for.  Tuesday was something like 25k steps of walking with the conference.  Anyway, 86 miles of running on the year which is almost 50x what I did last January.

I do need to get back to body weight exercises.  

Week ending 04JAN2026

Happy New Year.  

Again, taking advantage of stupid warm for December temps and some down time in work and getting out for some miles.  

Mon - 7.3 miles, a few with GW
Tue - 8.1 miles, with the Coyote Crew at BHS track, 8 x 3 minutes on, 90 sec off.  
Wed - 14.1 miles, a bunch with LF and then headed over to BHS to jog with GW a bit as he coached IW
Thur - 8.1 miles solo, out on Ditch into Interlocken and back
Fri - 10.3 miles, most of them with Don B - who I have not run with in over a year.  Need to correct that
Sat - 7.3 miles.  Tired.  Solo.  Guessing I was a bit beat because I got the Covid and flu vax yesterday.
Sun - 9.9 miles, a few of them with GW.

This put me at 65.2 miles on the week, with 13 more of walking (as of this writing).  I felt it a bit ... just a bit tired.  Luckily I had some time in the afternoons to grab a nap or two.  I am expecting a bit less next week as I will be on the travel bus to CES.  

2026 plans in a post soon.  

Year End Numbers 2025

Obligatory EOY post with numbers

Connect puts me at 2197.4 of running.   Strava has me at 2194.

  

This came on the "back nine" - with almost no miles in January.

Signing up for Pikes, motivated by nudge from Don S if I am honest, got me moving a bit in June.   It was a good nudge.  More that at some point.  

December was the highest volume month in terms of miles, but it actually was about level in terms of time (the last months of the year were around 39 hours a month) - coming in with less than 10k of vert (CA travel to the Bay there). 

Apparently last year I did 2300 miles ... 

I walked a lot ... I actually measured it this year.  Shaking my head at how much I walked in January.  For interest I eyeballed steps.  That came at just under 19k a day.  

Week ending 28DEC2025

60 miles on the week

Mon - 9 miles with about 5 of it with GW
Tue - 9 miles down through Holmberg / Roberts
Wed - 9.4 miles down through Holmberg / Roberts
Thu - 9 miles on the warmest day recorded for Christmas in Denver.  A loop with JZ (absolutely wonderful
Fri - 7.2 miles including about 5 of it with GW
Sat - 9.1 miles, a mile starting with TZ and then the rest around the Lake Link / Ridgeview loop
Sun - with JZ on the ditch path up into Interlocken.  7.2 miles

Another 10.8 miles of walking (at least) as well.  

2164.4 miles of running on the year according Strava, 2167.8 according to Garmin C.  Walking is at 766 miles on the year.  

Sunday 17AUG2025

Back to Green.  It was a train wreck.  I went up the middle out of Gregory and managed to average under twenty minutes a mile for each of the miles except the last.  I was falling a lot though and cracked my knee pretty good on the way in the boulder field on Greenman.  

I got a call about 2 minutes from the summit by TZ that she was heading down so I flipped.  I thought I'd get down in about 40 minutes.  I was wrong.  I was moving at 2mph (27 min/mile) on the down.   Even on the runable sections, I was flopping at 15 minutes a mile.  I was a hurting dog.  

5.5 miles, with about 2200 feet of climbing.  

I was cooked for a bit post.  Afternoon nap helped.

50.5 miles on the week, with close to 5k of vert.  It started as a solid week but sorta came off the rails by the weekend.  1160 something on the year.

Saturday 16AUG2025

Didn't get out until the evening.  Was dragging for sure.  

7.3 slooooow.

Friday 15AUG2025

 3 miles with GW and then another four easy on my own

Thursday 14AUG2025

With LF early, slow and easy. 10.5 miles before it got stupid hot.  

Wendnesday 13AUG2025

Up early with LF's crew at BHMS track.  4 x 800-400 and then an extra 400 for good measure. 

Fairly convinced the track work is abusing my left ankle some.

10 miles on the morning. 

Tuesday 12AUG2025

TZ and I got up early to hit Chaut, but then sat in traffic on 36 for 45 minutes.  The accident looked pretty bad as we rolled by it.  Given the shorter window we had, we opted for NCAR instead.  Got a little over an hour there for 4.4 and about 1000 feet of up.

Monday 11AUG2025

Mid day, listening to a work call.  6 miles.  Did the Ditch Lac Amora Lake Link Loop.

Sunday 10AUG2025

10 years ago this weekend, Jack and I won at BV, and with that became a Triple Crown winner in Pack Burro Racing.  Like many things in the past, it seems like yesterday and more than 10 years ago at the same time.

FWIW - the burro we raced against, Yukon, is still a force on the pack burro racing circuit

8 miles today.  Climbed out of Cragmoor and up to the climb wall and then wandered around a bit.  Got me to 56 and change on the week with over 5k on the week.  It felt like it has been 10 years since I did something like that.  

It was slow.

Saturday 09AUG2025

Again ... it has been a bit.  Based on labels on this blog, I have not been up Green since October of 2023.  That seems too long to be true, but I guess it could make sense.  That would mean I didn't get on it for all of 2024.  Sheesh.

I was mildly surprised at some trail reroutes and new connectors.  Again, I guess that is what happens when you don't go there for almost 2 years.  I meandered around, actually coming down after being halfway up, before heading back up to the summit.  

The lady bugs were back too.

I zapped myself pretty good over 9 miles, 3k+ of vert.  Legs were beat.  It has probably been that long since I have had that much of a vert day.  

Friday 08AUG2025

Seven in the AM.  Dragging again.  

Gigged at Rails in the evening with The Pinebox Sleepers for their 9th birthday party.   I'll say it was our best outing yet.  Probably not a pic or video to be found of course.

Inched through 1100 miles on the year today.  If I can maintain the knee and some fair habits, a 2K year could be doable.  

Thursday 07AUG2025

7 miles, out and back along the ditch out into Interlocken and back.  Fartlek'd the return.  It was hot as I didn't get out until the midday, but not oppressive.  

Wednesday 06AUG2025

Dragger day, but moved through 9 miles before it got too hot.  

Just heavy legged the entire time.  

61 miles over the last seven days so that might have something to do with it. 

Tuesday 05AUG2025

Got up early and ran with the group that hits the MS track.  I have no specific aspirations for time or pace when running with this group.  Instead I focus on "breathing hard."  Today they did 5 x 4 minutes on 1 minute off ... so a broken tempo.  I was covering a little over 900 meters in each of the reps.  8 miles on the day.  

Smoke is starting to blow in

Monday 04AUG2025

The adult off spring required a ride back from the airport at 2AM, so I ended up sleeping in a bit.  The AM run was only four miles and so I dragged back out at 8:30PM for another four.