Jan 5 - 10

Monday - Still feel sick, but skiing we go - 11 am to 4pm, Skiing at Park City, 11 runs, 31.73 miles, spent most of the day with Mel and Christian

Tuesday - mostly better from my sickness. 10:15 am to 4pm, skiing at Park City, 14 runs, 32.95 miles. Spent morning with Katharine, afternoon with ODP

Wednesday - 

Thursday - 

Friday - 

Saturday - 

Dec 29 - Jan 3

Monday - 6 am - Morning rock climb at Millcreek. 10 min sauna to warm up, then: 

North Boulder 011
OG 2 purple V1 dang that was hard, Yellow V3 2 attempts, Other yellow V3 left 2 attempts, easier than the other but my palms can’t handle it, Hanging Purple V3 2 attempts, Purple V1, V0
North boulder V0, Blue V2 attempt, 10
OG black V1, purple V1, 30 min sauna

Ride at 3:48pm, 9.87 miles, 1 hour 29 min. 36 degrees, tow warmers, up to Lisa and back, 2 local legends, for UP! Mile 2 and Tempe Quarry 1st bridge to 2nd bridge Level 2. 

Tuesday - Cleaning and dancing before Wes came home, then walking at the airport, then walking downtown when we went to the art museum.

Wednesday - Corey and I took Wes, Lily, Daniel and Peter climbing. 

I mostly belayed, but did a few: 

South wall Blue 5.10b

South Wall Yellow 5.11a

South Wall Pink 5.10c

Bouldering - Pink V3

Stupid pink V1 I got it ugh

Up to friends cabin for New years eve

Thursday - shoveling at the cabin

Friday - OG -11220, Got the Purple v3 yay, My heart is pounding unusually hard, like that one morning after my miscarriage, 02, South Boulder 21, OG 3a3a0, North green V12a2a2 got it 102a

on date night noticed i have a sore throat.

Saturday - Sore throat still here, plus headache and cough. Feeling sick, tried to rest today, wanted to go climb with Wes but I should rest and try to get better.

Dec 22 - 27

Monday - 11:40 am walk delivering a few more invitations for Mel's wedding. 1.62 miles in 29 minutes.

3:30 pm Ride to ruins, temp 60 degrees, the trail was in PERFECT condition - no mud, ice, nothing. Thought I turned on my Strava at the start but happened to check it after Avalanche hill and it wasn't recording, doh! Turned it on, Corey and I got to top in 1:06 (based on his strava). I got 4 more local legends, woot! Bird is the word for all athletes, Temple Quarry 2nd bridge to top got a bronze pr - 21:15. Local Legend for Little Cottonwood Descent - Lower Half and Pow Plant Down. I also got every feature except the 3rd bridge pipe (there was another biker there) and the 2nd to last feature at the top. Got 2nd bridge rocks, avalanche hill, 3rd bridge rocks, and Lisa rocks!!!

Tuesday - 11:30 Home> Ruins > Techy > Home, 62 degrees again, 52 at ruins, perfection. 11.16 miles, 1 hour 25 min, 3 more local legends - for Fastest section alive women, red church to wasatch all, and climb to the pipe with 24 efforts

Wednesday - Drove to Momentum at 7am but they were closed, holiday hours 10-6. Went back with Corey at 1:10, top rope, bouldering, sauna:

1- West wall blue 5.10c 2 rests ugh

2- red 5.10a & then 3- yellow 5.10a right away

4- step roofs purple 5.10c

5- step roofs orange 5.10c

6- crack wall yellow 5.10d

Boulder OG 

Purple V3 got it 💪

Purple V2

North Boulder green V1

Red V2

Purple V1

Blue V2

OG V3 didn’t get it

South Boulder Pink V2

Sauna 15 min then 25 min more, then stretch

Thursday - Christmas Ride! 12:10 - 53 degrees! Trail was clear and perfect, I don't know that this will ever happen again. Ruins at 1:07:50

Loved listening to "Spirit" by the killers

Friday - some stretching

Saturday - 5:24 pm -  Ft Union momentum:

1- East green 5.10b felt HARD

2- East yellow 5.11b half way then purple 5.10b

3- purple 5.10b right away

4- NE pink 5.10d

Boulder Center 

NE green V1

NE black V2

East wall N blue V2

East center purple V1

East center green V4 attempt

East center white V0

Center SE purple V2

Center SE blue V3 many attempts

Cave purple V2 2x

Cave purple V1 2x

West wall pink V0 that I hate

Center west new pink V2

Hanging pink V2 yay

Dec 15 - 20

Monday - Ride and hike to ruins on silver bike, which is not great. I parked it before avalanche hill then hiked the rest up and jogged down via techy, kept strava on biking even though I was hiking. I would have had to hike a lot of it anyway, lots of icy areas (no slush). A bobcat crossed the trail in front of me on the climb! 11.24 miles, 1 hour 51 min total, 1 hour 5 min to ruins. I got more Local Legends, oh yeah - 2 new ones for today in bold, and the rest are my other Local legend for ALL athletes: UP Mile 2 (26), Little Cottonwood Canyon Road Climb (26), LCC trail w/cool loop on descent (20), temple quarry to mushroom land (24), DH Quarry (21), bird is the word (23), Techy (22), Little Cott Descent Lower half (23) woot! I still have it for all the other segements for women. I'm watching to make sure I keep it though the end of 2025 then I'm content to hang up my laurels if need be.

Ride to Burt Bros to pick up the van 2.61 miles in 10 minutes

Walk downtown at Temple Square to see the lights, 1.78 miles in 45 minutes

Tuesday - 15 min rebounding stuff

Wednesday - 8am 30 min jump rope and shuffle, stretch

2pm top rope with Corey at Millcreek:

1- NE pink 5.10c

2- step roofs orange 5.10c

3- step roofs purple 5.10c

4- step roofs green  5.10b

5- step roofs black 5.10b

6- SE by kids area black 5.10b

7- SW black 5.11b two cheats 1 rest 1fall

8- SW green 5.10c 1 cheat at end

9:20 pm walk around the neighborhood, .5 miles in 10 min, my 900th activity!

Thursday - nada

Friday - 6 am bouldering at Millcreek in OG sector the whole time. I finally got to the top of the purple V3! 

6 pm walk in east neighborhood delivering invitations, 2.05 miles in 40 minutes.

Saturday - 4:30 pm walk delivering invitations to west neighborhood, 2.69 miles in 50 minutes.

Date night redo - 8pm Fort Union toprope:

1- South wall Pink 5.10c

2- South wall yellow 5.11a 2 rests

3- South wall purple 5.11b 1st 1/3 then purple

4- South wall green 5.11a 1 rest, I think it’s possible

5- SW red 5.10d 2 rests but no cheats yay!

Tricky

6- NW red 2rests no cheats yay

7- NW green 5.10c

8- NE pink 5.10d 1 rest

Hanging Pink V2 2x

Dec 8 - 13

Monday - 6:30 am in basement - rebounding and trunk twists, then this workout (I sent this to Wes for him to do too) a repeat workout from 2013:

• 60 push ups
• 100 mountain climbers
• 60 love bends (10 left then 10 right alternating with dumbbell in each hand)
• 100 mountain climbers 
• 60 one leg push-ups ... do on knees if needed
• 100 mountain climbers 
• 60 back lunges
• 100 mountain climbers 
• 60 squat forward kick alternating
• 100 mountain climbers

Tuesday - Jordan River Temple at 5, then little bit of stuff and bouldering at 6:

Warm up -

100 rebound jumps

100 trunk twists 

Then 4 min of

10 body weight squats

10 big arm circles

10 overhead reaches

10 small shoulder circles

Repeat for 4 min

Then Kids area R>L and L>R then a few V2s sent and V3 attempts

Back at home, 10 min on treadmill with walking and 3 30 second sprints, cause this guy on youtube says it is anti-aging. :) 

5:55 pm top rope at Millcreek 

1- SE blue 5.10a

2- Step roofs orange 5.10c

3- Step roofs purple 5.10c

4- South Toprope (west) 5.10d 1 cheat

5- SW by arch green 5.10c 1 rest at top, tricky

6- SW black 5.11b 2 rests 2 cheats at top, hard at top

7- west pink 5.10d

8- north green 5.10b

then sauna for 30 min.

Wednesday - 3:30 pm ride to Lisa and back, silver bike, 56 degrees at home when started, 51 when done, 10.16 miles, 1 hour 26 minutes. Snow wasn't bad for most of the trail, but at Lisa was too much and too slick, so turned around. 

Thursday - 1:30 pom - Abi was home so Corey and I went on a ride. Almost to 3rd bridge but I didn't want to go any more, back was hurting a little (I don't love the silver bike). 9.07 miles, 1 hour 7 min. 58 degrees. I got the coalpit Local legend, that's all of them!

Friday - 25 handstands against wall and 5 min V stretch against wall

Saturday - 8:15 am top rope at Ft Union Momentum

• South wall
• 1- Pink 5.10c
• 2- blue 5.10b
• 3- red 5.10b
• 4- blue 5.10c
• 5- NE red 5.10d 2/3 rests on same spot half way
• 6- NW green 5.10c
• 7- NW pink 5.11b got over half way then impossible, switched to purple
• 8- NW pink 5.11a only one rest!!! No cheats, woo!
• 9- NE pink 5.10d
• 10- NE blue 5.10d

Then one pink V2 boulder, then hanging one that is kinda hard, I hit my knee!!

At home, did three 30 seconds sprints on treadmill, stretching

Dec 1 - 6

Monday - At home workout in basement - 7 min - (I did for 40 minutes) https://youtu.be/XTbJZXXccpE?si=LvKKq8EOQFFIbsKR

Squats, stretch, Romanian deadlift 60x 2/30

Practiced 47 muscles move for 2 minutes https://youtube.com/shorts/Xo9QHPUPwhM?si=HwtXGTNtNulci7UH (Did it barefoot, hurts my right big toe joint)

This ab workout, 3 sets https://youtube.com/shorts/T-DfPgr5d8E?si=F7vHvW19929nQiHp

And this… 3 sets of 4 moves https://youtube.com/shorts/UUkFGJ01yq4?si=Nr-G05Dm4KAWVvwH

Aaand standing marches with 2/10lbs https://youtube.com/shorts/KiXpFWeT2-w?si=etYDaooP-a_30Qkl - I did 70 reps 3 times! While I listened to “I got soul but I’m not a soldier” 

Tuesday - 6:15 am bouldering after temple, did a little bit of lymphatic stuff, sent Wes a workout, then .25 mile treadmill

Quick bouldering:

• Kids area L>R & R>L
• West wall pink V0 got it but ugh it sucks
• Purple V2
• Green V3 attempt
• Pink V2 yay got it
• Center west blue V2 nice
• West pink V1 so freaking hard

Gotta head home, gave my palms a decent workout for 30+ min

Wednesday - 6 am - basement workout: 55 minutes, rebounding/dancing for 20, Melissa Ioja Fit Test - 

...then Trevors Instinct for 7 min. 

10:30 am - V stretch on floor using bathroom doors, I was able to touch both door frames strongly with my heels! Then followed along with this face coach video and this 1 min video to prevent wrinkles

Thursday - 1:37 pm ride to ruins, 11.02 miles, 1 hour 46 min. I got 2 local legends:

1st bridge to top & 3rd bridge to top. I'm one effort away from a few more, so I might try and do a ride again tomorrow before the winter storm comes in this weekend.

Friday - 6:10 am bouldering at Millcreek, 24 total, 18 sent, 6 attempts. Still working on that overhang Purple V3 in the OG sector.

1:30 pm ride to ruins, 38 degrees. 11.03 miles, 1 hour 55 min. 

I have done this route 22 times in the past 90 days.

I got 8 local legends!

1. LCC Trail Climb to 2nd bridge
2. Little C 1st Bridge
3. Temple Quarry to Mushroomland
4. UP! Mile 2
5. UP! Mile 3
6. Fastest Section Alive
7. Little Cottonwood Descent - Lower Half
8. Pow Plant Down

And I still have it for Red Church to Wasatch, Little Cottonwood, LCC Trail ONB w/Cool Loop on Descent1st bridge to top (got yesterday), 3rd Bridge to top (got yesterday), bird is the word, (1 more and I'll bump Aydan Moore and will take it for all athletes), DH Quarry, Techy, 

Need Little Cottonwood Road Climb - Leigh Low has 22 efforts, Strava says I need 1 more, and for Coalpit Area it says I need 3 more, weird... strava must cut out on those parts and not get reception cause I've done that every time I've done the other sections, which is 22 times. 

Saturday - 8pm top rope at Ft Union:

• 1- NE purple 5.10b fun
• 2- NE Blue 5.10d another fun one
• 3- NE pink 5.10d got it! Fun
• 4- NE yellow 5.10c one rest, felt hard
• 5- NE black 5.11b 6 rests? HARD but I didn’t cheat
• 6- NW pink 5.11a woo! 1 rest but no cheats!
• 7- NW blue 5.10d 2 or 3 rest no cheats
• 8- NW red 5.10d 2 or 3 rests no cheats, hard

Nov 24 - 29

Monday - 6:15 am bouldering at Ft Unions. 44 minutes, 20 total - 16 sends, 4 attempts:

• CAVE purple 012 
• Red V3 attempt
• Yellow V2 attempt
• purple 012 
• Purple V1
• WEST WALL - Orange V3 attempt
• Purple V2
• Pink V0
• Pink V2 
• NW WALL - yellow V2
• CENTER NW - Yellow V1
• Purple V0
• Green V1
• N CENTER - Pink V2
• Center west - Purple V0
• Purple v2 attempt

10am ride to ruins (Abi is home sick so she stayed with K). 41 degrees at start. I was ok with two layers, neck warmer, gloves and snowboots. Took it nice and easy, got to ruins at 1:12. Got Local legend for ALL athletes for DH Quarry! with 17 efforts in the last 90 days. 11.26 miles, 1 hour 38 minutes

Tuesday - Nothing, up to Park City for Thanksgiving

Wednesday - 8am toprope at Millcreek - 

1- Black 5.10cd

2- Pink 5.10bcd

3- Roof steps purple 5.10bc 

4- Crack wall orange 5.10b woo! Arms got so pumped

5- Crack wall yellow 9ab

6- roof steps green 10b

7- roof steps orange 5.10c

8- SW corner green 5.10c got it!

6-8pm ice skating at Park City. Tried to channel a bit of Bonnie Blair, felt pretty comfortable on the ice after 2 hours. 

Thursday - 18.11 min 4 incline

1 mile walking on treadmill

Then some stretching and fascia stuff ~ 

https://youtu.be/XTbJZXXccpE?si=LvKKq8EOQFFIbsKR

https://youtu.be/XTbJZXXccpE?si=2HmxsQ6iR2z4132M 

Friday - ride to ruins plus date night bouldering at Ft Union with Corey, Joseph & Eliza, Hyrum, and Lily

Saturday - Evening top rope, only did 6, not quite recovered from yesterday