Grandeur Peak - 8299’

Coworker: Your legs are going to be dead. It’s a tough hike. Really steep.

Me: Oh, my legs are already dead from CrossFit. Like, it physically hurts to touch my calves.

Coworker: lololol, yeah, have fun…

KC also told me (1) not to do this and (2) if I was adamant about it, I should do the easier trail (half a mile longer, starts 900’ higher). Apparently I don’t listen well.

I took the West Ridge, for 3299’ vert in 2.2 miles. Ouch. (For all of you at home who can’t fully grok vert, that’s a 28% grade climb. For 2.2 miles. Yeah.)

As if my calves didn’t hurt enough from two days of hard CrossFit and the uphike, I decided to trail run down, so now my quads are useless, too. All evened out!

I regret nothing.

Anonymous asked: Probs not the best idea to have your cac just hanging out like that in a photo for all of the internet to see...!

The fact that you think it’s a CAC proves that it’s illegible.

Thanks for the concern, though.

Thursdaaaaaay! I like you.

-I got up early and put on one of my favorite outfits.
-I got to work early so I can leave early again.
-I’m leading a daunting teleconference in a couple of hours, but I’m nervous in a good way.
-People are posting photos from this past weekend’s adventures on Facebook, and they make me happy.
-I’m running errands at lunch, so my day will feel even shorter.
-My legs are DESTROYED.
-I’m tackling a mountain after work!
-I plan on refueling with Cafe Rio. That probably means nothing to you, but trust.
-I have a team meeting for my Ragnar (Wasatch Back!) next month tonight. Hnnnnnng, mountain miles.

Like, really. Could you get any better, Thursday?

So I was beyond excited for CrossFit tonight, because Wednesdays at my gym are strictly strength for the non-competitor folk, and tonight was FRONT SQUATS. I love them. So hard.

Get to gym, and everyone in the class wants to do the competitors’ WOD (i.e., for our Regionals athletes). Ugh. Do not like. Scaling everything doesn’t bother me, I just reallyyyyyy wanted dem front squats, ya dig?

Warm up

• 500m row, 2:13
• line drills
• ground to overhead progressions

WOD

For time:

• 100x DU (scaled to 300 singles)
• 40x HSPU (lolol - we were supposed to scale this to 10x 10 second holds, but I had never done a handstand before today… that’s real. I stuck with attempts.)
• Rest 3 minutes
• 100x DU (scaled to 300x singles)
• 20x HSPU (scaled to 5x attempts)
• Rest 3 minutes
• 30x TTB (scaled to v-ups)
• 10x Axle S2O, 100# (scaled to 55#)
• Rest 3 minutes
• 20x TTB (scaled to v-ups)
• 10x Axle S2O, 100# (scaled to 55#)
• Rest 3 minutes
• 10x Axle S20, 100#
• 90’ Front Rack Walking Lunge, 100# (scaled to 55#)

=30:04

I got a few handstands (with a spotter, because OMGSH SO SCARY [I do not like inversion… I am not Darcy]), and everything else was just straight work.

No shame in my game. Except I got my period (while wearing my light grey shorts) during the first set of single unders (lololol @ my life), my calves feel like they’re going to fall off of my legs, and the rest of my body is just tiiired.

I would like to call shenanigans on this workout and go back to this past weekend to siesta in my goblin cave again.

Please and thank you.

Today was super lovely:

• In to work an hour early so I could leave an hour early. (Feels like cheating the system every time!)
• Groceries, errands, shenanigans.
• CrossFit! (60 wall balls, 50 pull-ups, 40 box jumps, 30 one-armed KB snatches… brutal.)
• GOT AN AWESOME NEW CROSSFIT SHIRT. My gym ordered old-school reversible basketball jerseys. I am in lust.
• Gorged on watermelon when I got home… nearly made myself ill. Success!
• Spent the evening FINALLY planning and prepping my garden. #therewillbebeets

And now I’m going to wash the salt and soil from my skin, crawl under my freshly laundered sheets, and read myself to sleep.

Fastest run since moving to Utah!

Thank you hills, hiking, and heavy weights.

3.0 miles.

32:07.

10:43 pace.

Celebratory watermelon, a la Danielle.

This weekend I went adventuring sans The Mormon. (GASP!)

The weather kept us from our original plans, so we improvised.

We:

• played frisbee with the goblins
• siesta’d in a cave
• played Harry Potter would you rather (will always choose a Weasley - duh)
• camped along the Colorado
• traded freeze-dried meals for Mexican and pancakes in Moab
• dangled our feet off of 1500’ canyon walls
• traipsed under arches
• visited one state park and two national parks
• drove too many (not enough?) miles

I am sleepy. I do not want to work tomorrow morning.

I’m not super feeling the internet lately. Sorry, dudes. Instead of posting about the 45 box jumps and 145# deadlifts I did today or the omelet I made for supper or the fact that I fiiiinally got a desktop at work (after six months), I’m going to answer some questions posed by the ever-lovely Darcy.

1. What is your worst fear?

• Settling into a life of mediocrity.

2. If you could make ONE wish right now and it would come true, what would you wish for?

• I’m not going to be altruistic with my wish. I wish my asthma wasn’t acting up, because it hurts to breeeeeeathe.

3. Favorite physical feature on you?

• Hiiiiips. They don’t lie.

4. Favorite personality trait of yours?

• I think I’m generally a good listener, and I give fairly decent advice.

5. Would you rather raise a girl or boy?

• I would prefer not to raise a child. If I had to, the gender wouldn’t matter to me.

6. Favorite childhood memory?

• I don’t really remember most of my childhood, nor do any memories I do have stick out as particularly pleasant. Mostly I just remember accidents. Gillian remembers my childhood better than I do. Maybe ask her?

7. Something TMI about you.

• I got my period at mile 2 of my first half marathon, and there was no toilet until mile 4. Also, I got my period during a set of squats once. And again one time during an AMRAP of burpees at a CrossFit competition. My period is an asshole.

8. Biggest pet peeve?

• When people talk AT me. Especially when I’m doing something, and they fail to pick up on the “I’m busy and uninterested” cues. Please just let me silence (this is a verb - look it up) in peace.

9. Favorite physical or mental feature of whatever gender you’re attracted to?

• Hands, crooked smiles, sarcasm, and intelligence.

10. POST A SELFIE RIGHT NOW.

11. If you had to pick a single favorite memory/day/hour of your entire lifetime, which would it be? 

• The last visit I had with my grandfather. We both knew it would be the last, but we left that unspoken. It was happy and heartbreaking. It was just the two of us, and it was perfect.

Squats, canyon miles, and Indian food.

We like to play house.

Not pictured: harnesses. (Which have been harnessed.)