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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 505.44 | 54.42 | 559.86 |
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 327.80 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 76.45 | Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 375.10 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 33.80 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 16.40 | Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 32.84 | Nike LunarFly Miles: 51.10 | Altra Lone Peak Miles: 35.55 | Hoka Kailua Miles: 42.40 | Salomon Speedcross Miles: 16.30 | Altra Olympus Miles: 47.80 | Saucony Kinvara Miles: 0.60 | Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 110.36 | Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 26.70 | Salomon XR Mission Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Happy 2014! Can you believe it?
I have about 100 resolutions, but the two I would like to share are 1) to write more and be less shy about sharing and 2) use a reusable coffee mug at all times, no more paper cups.
Granted 2013 was sandwiched on both sides with hip surgeries and crap, the meat (and by meat on mean cheese) was pretty good. Considering I was on crutches for OVER 3 MONTHS of 2013, I think I did alright :)
Just a few of my 2013 highlights...
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| AM: Morning hip.
PM: Evening hip plus 30 minutes bike and 10 minutes arm bike.
That's like 2 plus hours of exercise without breaking a sweat!
7 weeks down, 5 more to go! Hip is feeling fab, SI is feeling bad.
I just looked back on my posts and well I am having way less pain at this point than my previous 2 surgeries and I am walking a whole week earlier than last time. I have none of the horrible hip flexor cramping pain I remember from the other surgeries, only tightness which I know will resolve once I am allowed to stretch more agressively. I have been holding off on saying this... but the pre-surgical pain I had in the front of my hip is GONE. Let's hope it stays that way!!!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.80 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Lots of passive range of motion and SI beating at PT then clamshells, ADULT bridges with band, and SQUATS like real SQUATS and they have never felt so goooood! My hips feel even and normal and weird! PM: 25 minutes bike and evening PT. Why do people lifting weights at the gym make me feel so uncomfortable? |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 5.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Morning hip.
PM: Evening hip and 30 minutes stationary bike (2 minutes on Level 6 - wowza!) and 10 minutes arm bike (not getting any easier).
Then some crazy idea making...
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Just walked through Temple Square with my CHEESEHEAD on, not really but that would have been cool! Instead it stayed in my backpack while my head froze and I walked POINT SIX miles to the Starbucks down the street. That was pretty much my first WALK hence the POINT SIX exclamation. Yesterday I was thinking, I am going to be running in like 2 weeks and now I am thinking I just want to lay down.
AM: Morning hip & POINT SIX mile walk
PM: :(
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Hip Stuff.
PM: Hip Stuff. 30 minutes bike.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Hip Stuff.
PM: Hip Stuff. 30 minutes bike.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 10 minutes bike and 20 minutes walking on PT's new zillion dollar treadmill. I didn't need a zillion dollar treadmill to tell me I am walking like a weird-o, but it is super cool to see the force plate results and vectors and stuff - I can't wait to run on that thing. Oh and I'M SUPER FAMOUS!!!
PM: 30 more minutes bike. Evening PT, which now consists of adult sized squats, clambshells with band, bridges, and serious hip flexor/quad stretching routine and some other random things.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 9.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 weeks down! 4 weeks until cross-country skiing!!!
AM: New morning hip stretching routine. I am starting to get a little relief with the SI joint.
PM: 35 minutes bike w/ 8 minutes above level 7 and evening hip. First SWEATS :) Think I am almost ready for SPIN! Recovery is going to be exponential from here on out!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 9.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Slept in.
PM: 45 minutes bike.
I know my blog is super boring right now (bike, bike, bike, vomit) and I wonder if people read it and think, why dosen't this girl just take up knitting and give up?
The long-awaited before and after shot. The shot on the left was taken several years ago so apparently the cam lesion was quite a bit thicker from all that bone banging the last few years. I had 5.5 mms of bone removed, which I guess is a lot in a joint. The difference is quite dramatic as I can already tell on the bike. The OTHER SIDE looked a little more dramatic.
Trying to make my blog un-boring... Those screws used to poke through my skin before I had them removed. It is fun having access too all my medical info :)
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 11.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 1 mile in 26:37 on the Pipeline Trail with my ski poles! Equally motivating as depressing - just nice to be outside and in the mountains if only for a moment :)
PM: 30 minutes bike
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: I woke up this morning and DID NOT want to go ride the bike in the gym so I pumped up my road bike tires and got all bundled up and found some semi-flat and dry road and went for it! I made it about seven minutes and then just got too nervous (and cold!) with the slush and turned around. It felt super awkward and funny, but it is a start!
PM: 60 minutes gym bike while listening to an entire episode of This American Life where they investigate the possibility that pig rectum is being passed of as calamari in restuarants across America. Made me hungry for calamari :)
PM2: Squats, bridges, clamshells, band things, lots o' hip stretching, HOT bath, and Tiger Balm!
BIG WEEKEND: 1 hiking mile, 2 outside biking miles, 2+ hours stationary biking, over 30 minutes holding clam shells - pretty exciting for someone that just started walking 2 weeks ago!!!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 15.00 | Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 10 minutes bike at PT and 15 minutes supervised walking. I am having a lot of funky low back crap. PT thinks my pelvis is being pulled off kilter by my wicked tight hip flexors. Aoki said he was very agressive with the capsular repair (tightening of hip stabalizers after dislocating my hip during surgery), but I am starting to think he went a little too tight! So so tight! PM: Skipped the evening bike and did a restorative yoga sesh instead then evening PT, scalding hot bath, and more tiger balm. |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 2.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Woke up this morning feeling the best yet! Was it the yoga, the intense PT session yesterday, one of the misc. hip soothing behaviors from the last few days, or the lessening of a certain life stressor (i.e. job). I bet a combo, but I am going to really focus on yoga for the next bit. PM: 30 minutes easy bike and now off to 90 minute massage to celebrate the healing and the NEW job I just took :) |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Yoga, stretch session. PM: 30 minute bike. Skipped all evening PT except for clam shells and hip flexor stretch. Needed a night off. |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Skipped morning PT. Just too busy :( PM: 45 minutes bike. |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 9.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 weeks out on the right hip this week and 1 year out on the left hip today! The right side has taken a beating these last 2 months, but I am pretty sure it is cured :)
AM: 10 minutes bike and lots of stretchies, squats, lunges, and CRAB WALK at PT.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 2.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 35 minutes interval workout on the stat bike and FIRST TIME on the ELLIPTICAL - felt weird but good with a little hip flexor tightness at the 4 minute mark so I stopped at 5. Squats, lungies, and stretchies.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 8.75 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| “We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.” ~MLK
AM: Yoga stretching routine.
AM2: Happy @ss kicking at PT. Lunges, squats, and crab walks with obstacles.
PM: 35 minutes bike. 5 minutes eliptical. More stretchies and clam shells.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.75 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| I just started reading The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself to balance out all of the young adult fiction books I have been reading (we're talking grade 3-5 fiction :) and I loved this:
The most important thing is your inner energy. If you're always tired and never enthused, then life is no fun. But if you're always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. ~Michael A. Singer
PM: Sixty minutes on the bike to make up for my sleeping through Spin class this morning (lack of inner energy, no fun) followed by all sorts of hip exercises...
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 16.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Loooved this article - The Shrinkage Factor: Aging and Ultramarathoning!
Inspiring words by Megan Arbogast: "I feel like I am setting an example for aging runners, especially for women, and I hope I’m inspiring them to keep moving. I’m glad I can make a mark, but what I really want to be remembered for is being a good, nice, kindhearted person, who happens to be a pretty decent runner. At the end of the day, no one but me really cares or remembers my places, times, and PRs, but they will remember my character, so it had better be good!"
AM: Bike, crab walks with hurdles, lunges, fire hydrants, and lots of manual capsule stretching at PT.
PM: 30 minutes bike and squats and newly added SIDE PLANKS. Now off to yoga...
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 11.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 10 weeks post-op today and I feel like I am back to normal and then some. Back to taking the bus/walking to work, SI joint is feeling better, the hip flexor is loosening up, hip has pretty darn much no pain or achiness, and my PT said I can give FLAT classic style Nordic skiing a whirl this weekend! I get to start my 5 x 5 SECONDS of running in two weeks and am feeling pretty optimistic and STOKED!
AM. Hip flexor and low back stretchies.
PM: 20 minute walk and 35 minute interval bike workout followed by evening PT now consisting of crab walks, squats, lunges, fire hydrants and side plank/clam shell superhero combos plus hip flexor, butterfly, adductor, and quad stretches, and one million cat/cows, hot bath, Tiger Balm, and dark chocolate. Shew!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 8.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Zero bike. Zero PT. Drank a coffee at 5pm and immediately fell asleep for an hour until dragged out for pizza and beer :)
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 45 minute bike at 24 Hour Fitness #1 and then 15 minute bike and 10 minute elliptical at 24 Hour Fitness #2 followed by lots of planks and stretchies.
PM: 45 minute errands walk through the Aves. Supposedly I can run when I can walk 30 minutes painfree and well BOOYAH I am there already!!!
Skiing tomorrow. YES skiing. Yikes!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 16.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minute Classic Nordic ski on the free trail by Utah Olympic Park. A lot easier/better than expected. I am TWO WEEKS ahead of schedule!!!
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Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minutes bike, 10 minutes elliptical, and lunges, squats, side plank clams, storks, TA's, and stretchies.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 9.00 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hip surgeries are sad and take out female short-track superstar speedskater well before her prime!
AM: 60 minute Spin class. Awful in so many ways - getting up two hours earlier than normal, hip flexors so tight and yucky feely, and legs just wouldn't move fast or hard enough to get my heart rate up blaughhhh. Crab walks, lots of stretching after, and eggs from the WF breakfast bar as a reward for getting up!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 17.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 11 weeks down. 1 more week until running!?!
AM: 10 minutes bike, lunges, crabbies, and lots of stretchies at PT.
PM: 35 minutes bike. Squats, planks, and more stretchies.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 13.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Nada. Legs have been exhausted lately. Grrrrr.
PM: Evening PT.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Drove to Dillon, CO and the ~7 hour drive took me over 10 hours. Was only able to use cruise control from SLC to Spanish Fork so saying my right hip/low back hurts is a huge understatement. The roads were AWFUL and so much snow! I drove in 3rd gear all the way from Glenwood Springs to Vail Pass, boooooo!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Gym workout at 9,300 feet while my family goes skiing at Keystone :( Funny how the altitude bothers me and not any of my flatlander family. 30 minutes bike and 10 minutes elliptical followed by hip routine, eucalyptus infused steam room, and hot tub. I am really hurting from the drive yesterday, sad face #2.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minutes bike, mega hip/core workout, hot tub, and steam room. Feeling good! PM: Cross-country skiing at Breckenridge Nordic area. Snow was amazing and I could ski no problem!!! Best day ever :) Then walked around Breckenridge asking everyone where a girl could get a Seahawks shirt! |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 3.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minutes bike and hip/core drill. Then hot tub and steam room - I could get used to this lifestyle! PM: Cross-country skiing at Keystone Nordic area. Feels so good to be outside and "skiing." |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minutes bike and 10 minutes elliptical. Began the long drive back to Salt Lake making it a whopping 10 milles before finding out that I70 is closed at Vail Pass. Now I am sitting at the Starbucks in Frisco watching it DUMP and waiting for the road to open. |
Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 12 weeks out from hip surgery #3 today and apparently that means that I can run and ski and skip as of today. Realistically I am probably going to give it another month before I even try to run plus I have to wait for the arrival of my ridiculous new shoes!
AM: 30 minutes bike. 10 minutes elliptical. 10 hour drive with ~8 stretching stops.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.50 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 30 minutes bike.
PM: Walked to the New Balance Store. Hip stuff.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mega workout at PT adding one-legged dead lifts and Captain Morgan's to the routine.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millcreek ski, gate to Elbow Fork and then PT.
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Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 2.90 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Millcreek ski again because I can! I want a puppy for a ski partner!
AM2: 20 minutes bike and PT at the gym.
PM: Abbreviated hip PT with lots of stretchies. Need to stretch hip flexor more!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 6.00 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 4.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nada bike. Nada PT. 15 hour work day rest day!
12 weeks of daily glute exercises and now officially ZERO of my pants fit. Do I buy all new pants or do I wear skirts and stretchy pants from here on out?
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Valentine-themed early spin class and then crab walks, lunges, squats, plank/clam shells, TAs, captain morgan's (hurts hip flexor too much), and lots of stretchies. Hip flexor gets so so so tight! Oh and almost forgot 10 minutes elliptical before spin while still sleeping...
Speaking of Valentine's Day... best gift idea ever!!!
PM: 90 minute hip massage oh my goodness.Things are really starting to loosen up for me. Pretty sure there is some running on the HORIZON.
And I wore flip-flops to Trader Joe's this evening :)
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 17.00 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Went to see a new physical therapist today. I don't like change and the woulda shoulda's.
20 minutes easy bike and no PT tonight. Something has flared up and I don't know what. Not sure if I overdid it in spin class yesterday or the new captain morgans grrrrrr. Pain is weird and I can't pinpoint it. Sort of electrical in nature, random and shooting, starting in my low back and radiating down the outside of my leg.
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| PM: So warm I had to get outside! Bike ride attempt on the Jordan River Parkway, which was closed after a mile so I wandered around weird place between highways, sesspools, and dirt piles until I got scared.
PM2: Walking evaulation at PT using fancy new million dollar treadmill. Also added one-legged squats to the PT routine. My walking-ness is about one zillion times better than last look and darn near perfect as far as stride length, forces, and other technical things meaning...
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 9.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| AM: 25 minute walk around Morris Meadows with 2 x 45 seconds of ***RUNNING***interspersed.
AM2: 30 minute interval workout on the stationary bike and then mega hip/glute/core workout. Speaking of glutes, loved this - Chasing Gold (and Jeans that Fit)!!!
I don't think I am quite ready to start running yet, I really want to wait until my right glute starts firing properly, my core gets a little stronger, and I have most my muscle imbalances fixed. I just needed to know it was possible and that my hip can withstand the impact, which it nicely did without pain yippie skip! I just did this to help the motivation. It is a bit daunting to start running again from scratch, again.
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 0.01 | Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 8.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 90 minute ride on the Legacy. Lots of cyclists out! My butt still hasn't thawed out an hour later... |
Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 24.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 35 minute elliptical rather be running through desert grrr grumble grumble.
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Elliptical (2014) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Went up Millcreek to see if it was skiable and after a half mile I decided it was not and then I tried to walk on the Pipeline Trail which was glare ice and then I gave up and went to the gym for 30 minutes on the bike and 20 on the elliptical followed by squats, lunges, yada yada. What a stupid waste of a long weekend! I am ready for winter again - I want to walk to frozen winter ice caves!
PM: 60 minutes of new pilates physical therapy. It is essentially neuromuscular rehabalitation using pilates type movments with a trained physcial therapist. It was super fun yet ridiculously hard! I have weird muscles firing when they shouldn't and now I have to get the right ones working!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 7.00 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 2.40 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Core, low back, upper back, flank, and arms super sore from pilates PT yesterday. I barely even moved so I can't believe how sore I am.
AM: 60 minute spin class and now my legs are as sore as the rest of me. Tuesday morning spin lady is ruthless!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 16.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 30 minute walk.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 30 minute walk and Pilate-PT.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| 3 x 45 seconds of RUNNING on the BST behind the U with 10 minute warm-up and 5 minutes hiking in between. Super fun - yippy! Back was super spazzy after, but mellowed out after about an hour and some stretchies and rollies.
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 0.01 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 1.90 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: 50 minute hike on the BST from Morris Meadows.
PM: 20 mile bike ride on the JRP/Legacy.
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Hiking 2014 Miles: 2.50 | Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 20.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ummm today I would call glorious! I haven't used that word since last spring...
19 miles biking on the Legacy. Why do I always feel shorter sitting in my car after a bike ride?
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 19.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 15-hour workday "rest day."
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ummm so I totally bonked or had a freak-out 40 minutes into Spin class. I was working pretty hard and after the 2nd speed workout dealie thing I couldn't get my legs moving and I felt all light-headed and the only thing I wanted to do was bolt out of class, which I did with wibbly wobbly legs.
Can you bonk after only 40 minutes? Do people eat before morning workouts? This has never happened to me before, but I had a 15 hour workday yesterday, haven't been sleeping more than 6 hours/night the past week, and hadn't really had anything to eat after 4pm yesterday so I am guessing that is what did it.
I just need to hold on until March 14th! I am in the middle of moving and changing jobs which means working 2.5 jobs at the moment and sleeping and eating like crap. I am so not hardcore!
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.30 | 0.00 | 0.30 |
| After two days of nonstop CrossFit, meaning moving, I am ready to begin my return to running Stoke March plan. 10 minute walking warm-up, then 3 x 1 minutes of running with four minutes of walking in between. Averaged eight minute pace, felt awesome, good place to start from.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 0.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 14-hour work day rest day. Only one more of these...
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.60 | 0.00 | 0.60 |
| Six by one minutes of RUNNING with 4-ish minutes of hiking in between on the BST behind my work. Um yay! |
Altra Lone Peak Miles: 0.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 60 minute bike ride & 90 minute restorative yoga class.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 11.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.75 | 0.00 | 0.75 |
| 5 x 90 seconds of running on the BST behind the U with 4-5 minute hike breaks. Easy peasy la la la.
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 0.75 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 1.25 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| 15 minutes of analyzing my walking-ness at PT. Other than needing to extend my right hip back a tad, I am walking darned near normal. AND THEN... 10 minutes of RUNNING with walk breaks. Again, need to work on my right hip extension. When I try to extend more I lose my pelvic stability, but the extension should come with time though and dedicated hip flexor stretching. At this point I think it is more important to keep my pelvis stable than to have full hip extension.
We then came up with a nice hip maintenance and core exercise plan and I said g'bye to my PT and all the clinic staff. I held back my tears until I get into my car and then bawled my eyes out. It has been one long haul you could say. I have been going to that clinic almost weekly for two and a half years prehabbing and rehabbing three hip surgeries and assorted resulting ailments and I am honest to gosh going to miss all those peeps :( I am so grateful for their support and awesomeness!
As of today (sitting, standing, AND running):
Zero pain in left hip.
Zero pain in right hip.
Nearly zero pain in low back/SI joint.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| Zoo BST to Red Butte.
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Hiking 2014 Miles: 2.50 | Hoka Kailua Miles: 1.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 16 hour work day rest day. Last one of these!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.50 | 0.00 | 1.50 |
| Little jaunt around lulu's loop. Ran when I felt like it and hiked when I felt like it.
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 1.50 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 1.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 30 minutes elliptical and then I bought new SKIS :)
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Elliptical (2014) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Yup that is TWO.
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 2.00 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 0.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Last day of full-time employment celebratory day!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| First backcountry day AND first day skiing in a very long, long time!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| THREE
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Hiking 2014 Miles: 0.50 | Hoka Kailua Miles: 3.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Little jaunt up Mt. Wire this morning. Let me just say that is an AWESOME place to be during a High Wind Warning! My eyballs were frozen so I took a wrong turn on the way down and ended up going a way too steep way, which was a very good test of my hip. I survived 4.5 miles with 2300 feet of gain - yikers!
I have to take it down a notch since I am upping the stoke a little too quickly! No running or hiking until at least Thursday. Get back on the bike!
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 2.00 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 2.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| AM: Zoo BST run.
PM: Skiing at snowbird with Fritz (never thought I would say that) and speedy Nicolai (next Bode Miller)
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Muddy Millcreek wandering.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2.5 hour Legacy Ride
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 35.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| Baby Beacon hike from zoo BST.
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Hiking 2014 Miles: 2.00 | Hoka Kailua Miles: 3.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.50 |
| AM: 20 minutes elliptical and 5 minutes on the TM
PM: Alaskan Brewing Co White Ale (8.2) & Crux Belgo Ale Belgian Style Pale Ale (6.5)
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Elliptical (2014) Miles: 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Going to update my FRB just because I need someplace to keep track of all the beers I will drink this week and their ratings.
PM: 90 minute run/mostly walk on the Deschutes River Trail. Cold, rainy, and so windy that the smell of hops was nicely wafting over to the other side of the river from the Deschutes Brewery.
Ninkasi Vanilla Oatis (9.2)
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 6.50 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 4.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Some lovely Nordic skiing in the woods below Mt. Bachelor. Lots of snow and pretty pines. I could easily be talked into moving to the Northwest.
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Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.20 | 0.00 | 5.20 |
| FIVE-ERS!
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 5.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Wire.
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Spent the last 4 days hiking in Grand Gulch in the Cedar Mesa area of Southern Utah. Forty or so miles of trekking through sand and fun from Collins Trailhead to Bullet Canyon.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.60 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| I haven't blogged in a bit. Couple of reasons 1) Superstitious: my hips went to hell a month or so after joining the blog back in 2011 and I have had enough of that crap. 2) I want to run for the pure joy of it and for me without any need for external approval. 3) I have been having a blast traveling these last few weeks. 4) I no longer want to be defined as hip surgery girl. 5) I have no OCD tendancies :)
That being said. I ran 10 miles in the desert last week no problem which is a good 5 weeks after starting to run again - crazy crazersons! And then I backpacked 36+ miles in four days without the least bit of problem except for some blisters on the big toe - I blame the sand.
Maybe I will return to the blog someday, but for now I am going to enjoy running whenever I want and for whatever reason I run although I will miss the daily journaling aspect. Hmpphhhh.
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 5.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.40 | 0.00 | 4.40 |
| Ass over teakettles run. Red Hill, Carbondale, CO.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Skiing with the fam at Copper Mountain. Happy Easter!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Quick Lulu Loop.
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 2.00 |
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Wasatch Trail Series (5.22 Miles) 00:49:06, Place overall: 3 | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 5.22 | 5.22 |
| Wanted to try out the Wasatch Trail Series, but it is a little too early for "racing." My uphill miles were just as fast if not faster than my downhill miles. Rewarded myself with Lone Star tacos after so it was all worth it!
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 5.22 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| City biking.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 22.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.20 | 0.00 | 7.20 |
| City Creek half trail half road.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Backcountry ski day! 2400 of gain, best powder day ever!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.30 | 0.00 | 1.30 |
| PM: Ran to Starbucks. Walked back home.
PM2: Evening backcountry ski at Brighton!
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 1.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.50 | 0.00 | 6.50 |
| WIRE from work. First run I have felt like I am making actual progress! I need my Hoka's to be half size smaller though - they are super fun on the downhill, but I need a bit more control!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Easy bike.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| City Creek to the base of Black Mountain.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.10 | 0.00 | 9.10 |
| City of Rocks Trail Run!
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Salomon Speedcross Miles: 9.10 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.10 | 0.00 | 9.10 |
| Attempted to run the Grandeur "Fun" Run. Forgot how steep the west side of Grandeur is ughhh and then got lost as it was getting dark trying to make my way back to the trail head from the Pipeline Trail. Ordered a pizza before I got back to my car so it would be ready on my way home and felt like Dean Karnezes :) Fun run indeed!
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 9.10 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.40 | 0.00 | 5.40 |
| Cloudy Wire morning with Nancy. Legs still pooped from Grandeur Fun Run
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Altra Lone Peak Miles: 5.40 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 12.00 | 0.00 | 12.00 |
| Morris Meadow to Black Mountain.
Grandeur, Wire, and Black Mountain all in one week. Time to head to the flatlands!
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Altra Olympus Miles: 12.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.60 | 0.00 | 5.60 |
| Run around Oshkosh in the rain past all the city sights - Fox River, Menominee Park, Lake Winnebago, and the Sundial.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 5.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.50 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Two times up Wire celebrating six months post a certain surgical event.
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 9.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Easy run on the Pipeline Trail followed by 10 hours of manual labor at the Ogden Expo Clif Bar booth.
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Altra Olympus Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 3.60 | 6.60 |
| AM: Ogden marathon spectating on my bike (Yay Fritz!) followed by pacing Nicolai in the kids K.
PM: Porter Fork to Elbow Fork on the Pipeline Trail. First Tempo Run of 2014 for three miles back to the car. Needed to burn off the one zillion grams of caffeine ingested today.
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Saucony Kinvara Miles: 0.60 | Altra Lone Peak Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Emigration ride with Fritz. I have come to look forward to the day after marathons as the only day we can recreate together sort of. He stayed with me until just below Pinecrest when two girls passed him...
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 22.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.80 | 0.00 | 4.80 |
| Aborted long run due to wicked, seering groin pain :(
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Altra Olympus Miles: 4.80 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Easy biking. Very angry tight hip flexor with pulling/searing feeling in groin with walking. Grrrrrr.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| More easy biking.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Went to see my PT for the first time since February. Hip has been bugging me for an entire week so I needed a little reassurance and direction. It was great to see PT since he knows my hips better than me and the visit was very encouraging since nothing appears to be wrong and everything looks great - best my low back SI has ever looked ever!
I think it is pretty cool that I went six months before my first flare-up. The 10 hours of Clif Bar booth standing last week followed by my first ever fast run probably just inflamed something or ripped up some scar tissue or adhesion. Take it easy for a few more days and relax :)
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Easy biking.
Felt a few POPS in my hip while moving around after a six hour car ride. Hopefully broke up some scar tissue and my hip will be all better!
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Hiked Peek-a-boo and Spooky slot canyons in Escalante. I have never seen so many flowers in the desert! Beautiful!!!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Two easy miles at 9000+ feet starting at the Hells Backbone Bridge near Escalante. No hip pain Hallelujah!
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Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.20 | 0.00 | 7.20 |
| Last year on Memorial Day I ran my first non-continuous mile. Ha! Think I am a little ahead of last year :)
Ran on the Pipeline Trail from Porter Fork to Rattlesnake. Note to self: Avoid Mill Creek on holidays. Why do I always forget?!?
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Salomon Speedcross Miles: 7.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Early morning ride up Emigration to Little Dell.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 26.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rest day. Iced my knee caps 4 x 10 minutes. From femoral acetabular blah blah to patello femoral blah blah grrrrrr. Then went to a talk by the Friends of Cedar Mesa.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.90 | 0.00 | 2.90 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.10 | 0.00 | 2.10 |
| Uphill only.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.20 | 0.00 | 3.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 1.40 | 0.00 | 1.40 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.30 | 0.00 | 2.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.40 | 0.00 | 4.40 |
| BST from Terraces.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| Morning Van Cott.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.60 | 0.00 | 9.60 |
| Sweet Alta/Brighton Lakes loop. 5 moose!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Emigration/Little Dell ride.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 27.70 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Base of Snowbird to top of Hidden Peak, Mineral Basin, then Baldy and Hidden Peak again. 4 moose, 1 birdie's life saved! Took the Tram down in a lightening storm :)
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 7.10 | 7.10 |
| Final Wasatch Trail Series event at Snowbird.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Sunset Peak to Mineral Basin wildflower tour!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 12.40 | 0.00 | 12.40 |
| AM: Run w/ boys in Upper Milcreek.
PM: Solo supermoon fastpack to Timp Basin. I totally hammocked!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Timp Basin to Summit and back to the car.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 8.60 | 0.00 | 8.60 |
| Aborted Humpty Hump attempt. Too hot!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.30 | 0.00 | 10.30 |
| Up to Flagstaff Peak and along Emma Ridge to Twin Lakes Pass and up to Mt. Wolverine and then down to Catherine's Pass back to the Alta parking lot. Proud of my last mile at 7:41 down the Summer Road after 4 hours on my feet!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.90 | 0.00 | 4.90 |
| More ridgetop wandering w/ the girls.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 14.00 | 0.00 | 14.00 |
| Desolation Trail loop overgrown bushwhack crap!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 1.00 | 4.00 |
| First ever track workout not counting the time I ran around the track once in Silverton! 4 x 400 and then had to walk home.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.20 | 0.00 | 3.20 |
| Old BST stomping grounds. Legs feel like lead. First track workout the day after longest run in years is never a good idea. Why don't we ever learn?!?
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 miles through the hood in the rain.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Emigration/Big Mountain ride.
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 35.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.20 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| AM: Restore yoga.
PM: Sunset stroll on the BST listening to the sweet voice of Brandi Carlisle at Red Butte.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| First ever double canyon doodle. Millcreek and Emigration!
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 49.10 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| Ran to pick up my CSA. Didn't make it very far running with the melons...
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 90 minutes of Forrest Yoga. Sounds tranquil, but it is NOT.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 22.10 | 0.00 | 22.10 |
| Upper Big Water trail to Desolation Lake via the Wasatch Crest then to Dog Lake and over to Gobblers down Bowman Fork to Alexandar Basin and then up the road a few miles back to the car. Booyah!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
| Nine flat Wisconsin road miles. Pine Lake loop. Feeling quite recovered from the 22 mile bushshmack last Thursday.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 9.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Oshkosh river run.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Ran down the flat Wiowash Trail and then over the new pedestrian trail on the Butte des Morts causeway to read the new Wisconsin Indian Tribe interprative signs.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.60 | 0.00 | 7.60 |
| Now in California!
Ran the Dipsea Trail into Muir Woods. Redwoods are simply magical and running through them is just freaking awesome! Running part of the Dipsea Trail was on my running trails bucket list so I am thankful that Fritz squeezed in the jaunt over to Marin County during our whirlwind CA trip.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 7.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.10 | 0.00 | 5.10 |
| Trudge up Mt. Wire for the moon rise and then down George's in the dark with my phone lighting the way. Pretty sure the last 9 days at sea level destroyed all my RBC's. Felt terrible, but it was probably the 90 degree heat and exhaustion from all the travels.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 5.10 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Restore yoga class and then bike ride to veggie land!
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.20 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| PM: 90 minute Forrest yoga class
PM2: Catherine's Pass TH to Sunset Peak and back. Needed a confidence booster for this weekend and I felt good thank goodness!
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 4.20 |
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The Rut 50K (31 Miles) 10:27:16 | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 31.00 | 31.00 |
| The Rut 50K Race Report!
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 31.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.30 | 0.00 | 4.30 |
| First post-Rut slog! Life handed me a gigantic ball of crap last week so my recovery was compromised to say the least. I attempted Superior from Cardiff Pass and got shut out by gigantic clouds (see below). I couldn't find the trail and was scrambling around at a level too difficult for comfort and I bloodied my ankle pretty badly so I bailed only 400 vertical feet from the top. I felt pretty good except my right ankle still feels sort of sprained and my right hamstring feels funky at the fibula attachment point. Other than that I can say The Rut didn't do too much damage!
When I finished my rike, my new Suunto said I went 5 miles, but when I upload it says I went 4.3. It also said I had a 6:26 mile when I know I spent at least 30+ minutes cowering on the ridge and was barely moving grrrrrrrr.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 4.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lots of walking (at least 5 miles) and thinking about puppies!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Early Legacy ride.
PM: 90 minutess Forrest yoga followed by bye, bye Allie sad face. See you in Eyjafjallajökull and hopefully Snæfellsjökull too!
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Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 30.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 60+ minutes of walking. I am starting to feel recovered from my rut and The Rut!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.50 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| After work today, I crawled into my makeshift bed and almost called it a day. Then I looked at the forecast and realized how few days might be left before the high Wasatch is covered in snow so I motivated up to the White Pine Trailhead and all the way to the Pheifferhorn.
The clouds and rain made the views spectacular and the colors absolutely pop! I forgot how early the sun now sets so I descended from Red Pine Lake in the dark with only my iPhone flashlight. The aspen leaves scattered across the trail were seriously glowing in the dark as well as the moose eyes in the woods - yikes!
I am pretty sure this is my favorite view in all of the Wasatch. Instagram is the easiest way to upload photos to frb btw.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 9.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 90 minute restorative yoga class
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| AM: Core yoga with Elliott of sub-24 hour Bear 100 fame. If you are on Strava, he deserves a he!! of a lot of kudos
PM: Guardman's COLOR run - so gorgeous right now! Got absolutely pounded with hail, which sort of hurt, but the colors and clouds and views were worth it!
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 4.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| Total sleep-deprived trudge on the BST. Got lil' Roo on Friday and well let's just say he goes bonkers at midnight, 3am, and 5:45am. His sweet little face makes it all worth it. I can't wait until he can head out on the trails with me! I loooove him so much.
This little face has been melting my heart all weekend! Enjoying all of the puppy moments, but can't wait until we can hike, climb, and trail run! #miniaussie #puppylove #kangaroothedog
View on Instagram
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.70 | 0.00 | 5.70 |
| I wanna be like Jake work to home commute! Half BST/half road and faster than TRAX/bus combo.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.50 | 0.00 | 4.50 |
| Morris Meadow loop. Felt like @ss!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| BST in the dark before puppy woke up.
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Altra Olympus Miles: 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 2 Liberty Park laps from home. I have decided to become a road (wood chip) runner now because it is just more convenient from my new place and I have to be in good Liberty Park shape for when Roo gets a little older and requires daily morning running. He is definately a morning dog :(
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| 5 miles on the Good Water Trail starting at the Wedge Overlook in the Swell! I have been wanting to run on this trail since I biked it last fall.
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Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 3.50 | 0.00 | 3.50 |
| More running on the Good Water Rim Trail, got a few minutes of running in with my new trail running buddy!
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Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| City Creek. First and last training run for my big 10K on Saturday :)
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.50 | 0.00 | 2.50 |
| An hour of walking and frisbee playing with Roo followed by one lap around Liberty Park from home. That makes 4 days in a row of running and I am feeling surprisingly good after nearly a month break. I am having a little PF in both feet, but I am thinking it is more likely related to the transition from sandal season to shoes. Nothing my Altra's can't fix :)
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Altra Olympus Miles: 2.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tried to take Kangaroo up to Little Wire/Baby Beacon, but overestimated how far I would be able to carry a 7.5 pound pup. Made it 2 miles with him walking every few minutes.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Tired out Roo with a walk and some frisbee in the park and then headed out for a few laps around Liberty. Running in circles in a city feels too much like exercise. I don't really understand why flat running is so hard for me.
And my Altra Olympus are now too beginning to disintegrate, they can't have more than 50 miles on them so that is super disappointing!
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Altra Olympus Miles: 4.00 |
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The BURN (6.5 Miles) 01:11:39, Place overall: 3 | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 6.50 | 6.50 |
| 7 hours later and my lungs still BURN!
1 8:57 216+
2 9:32 221+
3 10:02 274+
4 11:31 400+
5 12:54 522+
6 12:48 498+
.5 10:57 180+
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lots of walks and 90 minute restore yoga class.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lots of walking: morning, noon, and evening.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Fun evening run on the BST with headlamps and a person I met on Instagram.
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Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.66 | 0.00 | 6.66 |
| AM: Walk with the Roo-ster.
AM2: Wanted one last visit to Red Pine Lake before the rest of the snow falls. More snow than I expected so I was working pretty hard at the top! Was so pretty and peaceful with no other soul on the trail.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 6.66 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.20 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| AM: Dirt road run on the Temple Mountain Road in the Swell. Trail porn views everywhere!!!
PM: Ding Canyon hike with multiple required American Ninja Warriors moves.
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Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 6.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.50 | 0.00 | 5.50 |
| AM: Got up at 5:30 to run Liberty Park laps in the rain, such a contrast from my perpetual snooze hitting until at least 7:15. Rewarded myself by making pumpkin pancakes served with pumpkin butter.
PM: I don't like running in the morning because then I don't have a run to look forward to after work. And then I end up at the laundromat with a bunch of creepers, oh how I haven't missed that in the last 8 plus years! Walked Roo in between loads with several sprints tossed in.
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Altra Olympus Miles: 5.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.20 | 0.00 | 5.20 |
| Liberty.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 5.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 10.00 | 0.00 | 10.00 |
| Last year on this day I was getting reacquainted with my ice machine, hip surgery número tres. It has been one heck of a haul, but I have finally put all that behind me and all I see is happy trails in front of me.
I like to celebrate anniversaries so I finally did Elliott's Humpty Hump - a sweet run stringing together Van Cott and Wire with another lil peak in between. 10 miles 3600+ feet of gain.
Cheers to staying healthy and my first winter in 4 years!
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 10.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Millcreek hike with Andrea and Roo - not sure which one was more excited about the snow! Then 5 routes at M-town straining every muscle in my body.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.20 | 0.00 | 6.20 |
| Frozen bum run around Liberty Park and then another mile or so with Roo. Surpsiring amount of people out in about in 18 degree weather.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 6.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.20 | 0.00 | 4.20 |
| AM: Walk with Roo.
PM: Liberty loopty loops.
PM2: Roo walk #2. This pup is going to get me in shape!
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 4.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| Ran home from work via the Avenues. A wee bit faster than the bus!
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Salomon XR Mission Miles: 4.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rest day. Only two Roo walks.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 9.50 | 0.00 | 9.50 |
| Enjoyed this article about Killian and his crazy FKT-ing! Really concerned that his head may actually blow up during his Everest attempt next year.
Also, this Mt. Wire trail running video is awesome! Go Outside and Play: A Morning on Red Butte
AM: Way too early Liberty Park run and then a cool-down with the Roo-ster.
PM: 5 miles home from work.
Who is this person?
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Altra Olympus Miles: 9.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.00 | 0.00 | 7.00 |
| Tried something different today, listened to a podcast (which was amazing, Terry Tempest Williams on Radiowest - LISTEN) during my run and took a turn off Dry Creek that I've never taken which got me bushwhacking up to a ridge that I never made it to the top of and was at one point 45% covered in burs. Pleasant change from the Liberty Loopties!
PM: Roo walk and 2 hours at the climbing gym.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 7.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Restore yoga, croissant eating, and trashy fiction day.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AM: Roo walk up Millcreek.
PM: Three hours at the climbing gym. Getting strong-zees, thanks goodness!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 5.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Roo walk to the vet for his shots. He weighed in at eleven pounds, boo hoo! He's nearing the limit of my carrying capacity.
Then some laps around Liberty and caught a bunch of girls dancing to Taylor Swift in the alleyway behind my house, if I was Jake I would have joined in! Now off to some trail running film fest and some brewskis.
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Nike LunarFly Miles: 5.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 7.20 | 0.00 | 7.20 |
| Home from work via the BST and Redondo. Finally scored the highly coveted Sunnyside to Redondo Strava record. Had to go big today since it will be days before I have a chance to run again.
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 7.20 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Drove to Moab. Hiked to Corona Arch and then chilled by the Colorado River. Highlight was having Roo's tendon treat stolen by a raven.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Got up way too early to catch the sunrise over Dead Horse Point and eat pumpkin pie. Met up with the Murphy's and hiked around a bit. Roo loooooooves Abby and Andy! Petroglyph hunting and wandering in the afternooon and more pie.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Headed south to the Cedar Mesa to try and find some ruins in Road Canyon. Sort of freaky when you get to the unmarked trailhead off of a forever dirt road and haven't seen a single car or person in over an hour and then drop down into a mazelike canyon and wander around for hours scrambling up to ruins with a wiggly 11-pound weight in your arms knowing that no one knows where you are right now and no one would really notice that you are missing for quite some time and if they did they really woudn't know where to look. Made it out in time (need to start telling people where I am going) to catch the sunset in Monument Valley before calling it a night in Mexican Hat.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Caught the sunrise at the San Juan Goosenecks, drove through Cedar Mesa, wandered around the rivers at Hite, hiked Little Wildhorse Canyon in the Swell, and then drove the entire Temple Mountain Road back to 70 and home listening to Amy Poehler's book the whole way - hilarious!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3.5 hours at the climbing gym. I will become climber again!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 4.60 | 0.00 | 4.60 |
| Slept like crap and felt like crap today so what a perfect time to drink a bunch of coffee and do the west face of Grandeur! Super icy near the top and the whole thing was so absolutely miserable I wanted to cry. I always forget how freaking steep it is and this was my first time going down the west side - owieeeee! Super glad I got out though :)
Mile 1 +1084 ft
Mile 2 +1800 ft (puke!)
Mile 3 +400 ft
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Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 4.60 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| My quads feel awesome today! They burn with every step down the stairs. It is so great to feel real muscle soreness rather than all the joint pain I am used to!
HUGE conundrum. I cannot decide which race to register for - the Antelope Canyon 55K or the Monument Valley 50K. I really want to do one this winter and they both look fantastic. If I knew it was going to be a crappy ski year, I would do both!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Today will go down as one of my happiest mornings in history! Skiing Mill Creek in the morning without a soul around is one of my most favorite things to do and this morning I had a little buddy to join me. Roo did great, he only tried to eat my skis eight times before realizing that was a really bad idea (the poles are another story). He just loves the snow and being outside and he makes me so HAPPY!
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Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 3.30 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kind of destroyed myself on Grandeur on Monday so another rest day. Awesomesauce starts tomorrow!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 6.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Yoga and then six on the BST from the zoo in shorts and a t-shirt. Then to Sweet Tooth Fairy for a pumpkin cupcake to negate my efforts, but I can do whatever I want because I am sad :(
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Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 6.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.10 |
| AM: Forrest yoga
PM: 3 Roo walks and thought I would go for a short easy run. Made it 2 blocks and couldn't take another step on my knee. I fell going down Grandeur on Monday and twisted my knee. It hurt yesterday, but I stupidly ran through it because I needed to run and now I feel totally f-ed! Please please get better, I really need to be able to run and ski this winter. I just want ONE winter! Off for more cupcakes and red grape....
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Early morning hike with Roo on the BST from Morris Meadows and then two laps on the Alta Summer Road with my touring gear working on my transitions for the big Citizen's SkiMo race on Tuesday. Just shooting for slight humiliation rather than total, utter humiliation Tuesday. Then 3 hours at the climbing gym and another 1-hour Roo walk - shew!
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| An exorbitant amount of walking.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| First SkiMo experience ever. Did 2 laps on the course and it was ridiculously hard. There was a boot pack section that almost made me cry. I never want to do it again, but can't wait for next week! Things I need to work on/fix:
- Learn how to lock bindings so I don't pop out a hundred times and hold up traffic.
- Get brighter head lamp.
- Remove leashes from my skis since they are totally unnecessary.
- Wear bike helmet instead of ski helmet.
- Don't cry.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
| Over 2 hours of walking with Roo, 2 miles of running (knee not great), and then 2 hours at the climbing gym.
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Altra Olympus Miles: 2.00 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Early morning hike on the BST with Roo then cleaned my house for the first time since I moved in and rolled out 200 Christmas cookies which should equal about 20 miles or so.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 laps at Brighton with a huge crew! 2700 feet of vertical, which is great for me but there were all these dudes in spandex who hit 10K by noon.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| A little sad that I can't run, but I can ski, yoga, and climb so I did exactly that today.
Made fresh tracks on the Nordic skis with the Roo-ster up MillCreek this morning and then attended my favorite Restore yoga class followed by 2.5 hours at the climbing gym.
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Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 3.50 |
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Two 1-hour walks with the pup (should count for something!) and then an attempt at an upper body workout so I can better carry my poles for SkiMo season.
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| Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | 505.44 | 54.42 | 559.86 |
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Biking (Stationary) 2014 Miles: 327.80 | Hiking 2014 Miles: 76.45 | Kona Bike 2014 Miles: 375.10 | Nordic Skiing (2014) Miles: 33.80 | Elliptical (2014) Miles: 16.40 | Salomon Speedcross - Sage Miles: 32.84 | Nike LunarFly Miles: 51.10 | Altra Lone Peak Miles: 35.55 | Hoka Kailua Miles: 42.40 | Salomon Speedcross Miles: 16.30 | Altra Olympus Miles: 47.80 | Saucony Kinvara Miles: 0.60 | Salomon Speedcross Softy Blue Miles: 110.36 | Salmon Fellraisers Miles: 26.70 | Salomon XR Mission Miles: 4.00 |
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