After 25 years of running I can say definitively that today’s run was the most unpleasant ever. I got caught in a violent hailstorm with no shirt (it was 79° F when I left home). After 10-15 minutes of pelting I was able to find shelter. I stood soaking wet in the howling wind for 20 minutes with my skin stinging and my scalp aching. Once the hail let up I ran home on sidewalks flooded with shin deep frigid water. I couldn’t feel my feet for the last mile. I’m bruised all over and my skin is still tingling hours later.
When I moved into this house 3 years ago I bought a vent to install in the bathroom ceiling. I installed it today. I guess it was hard to find the right combination of motivation, free time, and appropriate attic weather (we only have 2 seasons: summer/winter).
Beautiful evening to run Towers.
Forget about the sharks and swim.
Cold, rainy, muddy: my perfect race weather. 2018 Quad Rock 50 mile race done and dusted. My 9h28m finish was 2 hours faster than I’ve ever run this race before, and, realistically, as good as I could hope on a course with over 2 miles cumulative vertical ascent/descent.
Developer documentation looks like gibberish to me, but when I read the header files it all makes sense.
Mill Creek flows about 2 weeks each year.
A chipmunk finds food at the summit of Horsetooth Mountain.
Highlights from yesterday’s Horsetooth hike and donut party.
For tomorrow’s donut party at the summit of Horsetooth Mountain…
My face is tired from smiling this hard.
Wild 🦃, black squirrel, 🐴🦷⛰
Five hour Friday
Horsetooth Rock, 7260 ft
Here comes the sun. 💯 miles for Melissa in 23 hours at the Palmer Lake Death Race!!!
The snow stopped just in time for a spectacular sunset at Palmer Lake. Melissa has run fifty-something miles and she’s still moving pretty well.
41 miles in the first 8 hours of the Palmer Lake Death Race 24 Hour for Melissa. The ❄️ continues to fall, but has let up considerably.
Will and Melissa running the Palmer Lake Death Race 24 Hour. They’re 7 hours in and it’s been snowing for 7 hours, though at 35° F it’s melting as fast as it’s falling.
🌧 🏃
#steep #rocky #switchbacks #ahead
In Colorado we experience a weather phenomenon I like to call hot-cold. I don’t think I’ve ever been as hot-cold as I was during today’s sunny-windy run. #gnarrunners #☀️ #💨 #🏃 #hotcold
Melissa’s #succulent
#stupid
Mini donuts so good you can’t even tell they’re vegan.
Perfect timing for my 1pm meeting.