Dec 16 - 21

Monday - Bouldering at 6am. Did 30:

• 1 V4 attempt
• 3 V3 attempts
• 3 V2 attempts
• 3 V2 Sends
• 3 V1 attempts
• 10 V1 sends
• 1 V0 attempt - still didn't get that hanging V0 in the OG sector! 
• 6 V0 sends

20 handstands. I'm getting better! I can easily get up each time, I can hold them pretty long and even for like 3-5 seconds without my feet touching the wall, woot

Tuesday - Ride up LCC on the trail. 11.30 miles, Ruins and Techy. Pretty melted and icy, even though it was 40 degrees at home, 35 on the trail. I took silver bike thinking it would be easier to do the climb (cause I wasn't feeling it) but it was so melted that there were lots of rocks showing and I wished I had my shocks. I took the decent very cautiously but still had a slip and fall, prob cause I didn't have my dropper post. Lesson learned. Take the Fezzari.

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Dec 9 - 14

Monday - 6:20 am Top rope with Corey:

• CT Hot pink 5.10b
• CT Purple 5.9
• TC hot pink 5.8
• TC Green 5.10a
• CT black 5.9

Also rode up LCC. 35 degrees when I started at 3:15, 32 when I finished. Just a light dusting of snow on the trail, and there was only one other set of tracks, so I knew that I was the second person on the trail today. 

I'm red riding hood! Riding a bike around the hood. Rode from home to ruins, 11.29 miles, 1 hour 46 min. 

Tuesday - My hands were not tender at all after climbing yesterday, so last night I decided I'd go climbing at the Sandy Momentum at 6am after my 5am temple appt. Followed through with my plan, did 28:

• 6 V3 attempts
• 2 V2 attempts
• 5 V2 Sends
• 10 V1 sends
• 5 V0 sends

Hands are tender after that! Good stuff.

Wednesday - Ride with Corey up LCC. Snow/ice was a little slick. We haven't had more snow, so it's been packed down a lot. 

 

Thursday - Toprope this morning with Corey. He did each climb first and then me. We did 6:

• Red 5.9 North
• Blue 5.10a North (this one was hard for me)
• Yellow 5.10a North (hard too! Took a brief rest half way up the wall)
• Black 5.10a South (pretty wasted after this, but both felt we could still do an easy one)
• Pink 5.9
• Pink 5.8

Then at 4:15 I went on a walk, 2.53 miles, 42 minutes. Set a timer and walked for 20 and then returned, because 40 minutes of walking 3x a week will help my hippocampus!

Friday - Snowing this morning. Went climbing (10 min late cause I had to shovel tire tracks for myself and Corey), did 16 boulders:

• 1 V2 send
• 5 V2 attempts
• 2 V1 sends
• 4 V0 attempts - that one dang hard one in the OG Sector. I even tried it near the beginning today, when I hoped my fingers would have more strength. I wonder if it was mislabeled? It is hanging and def too hard for a zero.
• 4 V0 sends

3pm ride on quarry trail, just me. Fresh snow was a little slick, even with a few fat bikes having ridden on it. I went to Techy then back home. Had to HAB for quite a bit of the trail cause of the loose snow. Also lots of hikers on it, so it was kinda bumpy, not smooth like two weeks ago. 39 degrees when I started, 35 when finished. 10.83 miles, 1 hour 55 min.

Saturday - nothing. It's been a while since I did "nothing"! 

Dec 2 - 7

Monday - 20 handstands, 10 each foot forward. I'm doing better at holding it without the wall, and today I also tried to hold it on one hand (left), haha, did it for like .08 of a second

Tuesday - Bike ride to the ruins, techy on the way down. I got 3 ACHIEVEMENTS! I hit everything on techy and tied my PR time at 2:47! AND there was no one on the trail, so I was feeling confident and tried going fast, plus with the snow, it made all the chunky rocks just easy to glide over, and I got a PR on the coalpit area (avalanche hill!) 1:41, Also 3rd place at 3:39 for Fastest section alive (pr was 3:32 on 11/6/23) It was fun! And beautiful. 45 degrees when I started, 40 when I was done, 11.15 miles, 1 hour 40 min. 

Wednesday - Corey got us Momentum memberships on Black Friday last week, so yay! Today was our first day! We went together at 6:30 am and just did bouldering (cause we had to hurry and get back to the kids). Corey is so excited!

The first thing I tried was two V3s on the short slab of the south boulder, and I did both of them! My arms were freaking out but I did them! I did 15 total today:

• 2 V3s - green and yellow 
• 2 V2 sends - 
• 2 V2 attempts
• 4 V1 sends 
• 3 V0 sends
• 1 V0 attempt

That last one, the V0 I didn't send, was in the OG sector on the 45 wall and was a hanging one, I couldn't hold myself on by the end of the session and that's when I knew we were done for today! I'm excited to be back climbing though!

Thursday - Ride up to the ruins after the girls got home from school. Started at 3:19, temp 44 degrees. I SENT EVERYTHING ON THE CLIMB TODAY! for my first time this year (the snow totally helped to make the obstacles easier (esp the 2nd bridge rocks) Oh didn't do the 3rd bridge pipe, but that one is easy. I was glad today I got the rocks after Lisa Falls, the first time I was able to get up that in the snow. AND I sent all of techy (rock gardens were way easy with snow! I got 5 achievements on the decent! A PR on Techy (cool way: 3:01!) and on the whole Quarry Downhill (3.6 miles in 15:03!)

The snow by the bridges looked so cool - ice crystals!

I had a very enjoyable ride.

38 degrees when I got back home. 11.21 miles, 1:35:23, 1519 elevation

Friday - Left at 5:50am this morning by myself. Was at Momentum there from 6:08 - 6:50, did 34:

• 2 V3s - same one two times, a yellow on the south boulder long slab
• 6 V2 sends 
• 3 V2 attempts
• 12 V1 sends 
• 1 V1 attempt (last one of the day, a purple (on the 45 wall again))
• 10 V0 sends

Done at 6:50d am, home at 7:06 

Saturday - ride up LCC to the ruins with Corey. 11.26 miles, 1 hour 40 min, 1523 elevation. 42 degrees when we started at 12:30, 45 when finished. Some stretching.

Nov 25 - 30

Monday - 3pm ride up to the ruins after Abi and Lily got home. 11.24 miles, 1 hour 43 min, 1523 elevation gain.

Tuesday - pull up, chin up, hang, a few let downs, handstand

Wednesday - Left at 1pm for a ride up the canyon, went on the trail, made it to the ruins, did techy 2x. 11.92 miles, 1 hour 57 minutes. 1636 elevation gain. I wore snowboots, they worked pretty well! My feet were warmer, I think I'll wear them again. 

Thursday - Pre Thanksgiving ride - Corey and I went up to the ruins and techy, 25 degrees was a bit cold, made Corey's dropper post freeze. 

Friday - Drove to St. George, ride with Corey - did Zen, 6.68 miles, 1 hour 35 min, 1119 elevation, 14 achievements (easy to get those since this was just our 2nd time riding this trail)

Saturday - Ride with Corey, JEM, Dead Ringer, Hurricane Rim, etc. 15.62 miles, 2 hour 19 min, 1296 elevation

Nov 18 - 23

Monday - I fasted on Friday for my neighbor's baby, up until date night, then started again. Did a full fast Saturday and Sunday, only drank a little bit of lemon water at the end of the day. So this morning I just went on a slow walk, and hallelujah I also reached my weight goal. They are hoping to know more about the baby in the next 48 hours, so I'm going to try to keep fasting most of the day, might have one meal, but haven't had it yet (as of 8 am)

Tuesday - 6:30 am did a 20 minute/1.02 mile walk on treadmill (did one jog for a few and one 50 second fast as the treadmill will go sprint) and then 3 laps around the block 1.12 miles in 19 min (jogged a little there too)

Wednesday - 2:45 pm rode up LCC to Techy and back in the snow!! 10.77 miles, 1 hour 32 minutes. Plus 20 handstands

Thursday - Rode to the ruins in the snow with Corey, 11.18 miles, 1 hour 40 minutes

Friday - 1 pull up 2 chin ups, 1 pull up 2 chin ups, quick ride to Natalie's friends house and back, 2.5 miles.

Saturday - Fasted until 4:30 today for Elisabeth's baby. I thought I could ride up the trail today, but it was too warm (high 50s, low 60s) so it was all slushy. Plus a lot of wind. So I took the road, I got to just past avalanche hill then came back home. 7.85 miles in 52 minutes. Then went over to clean Elisabeth's house with a few friends from 1:30- 4, it was great. 

Nov 11 - 16

Monday - Weather was 60 today, and forecast says there will be snow tomorrow. So... we took another "last ride" today. 15.68 miles, 1781 elevation gain. Took us 2 hours 10 minutes. We did a repeat of our Saturday ride, parking a bit before the tollbooth, riding up to the Rattlesnake Gulch trailhead, up the switchbacks to the Pipeline trail. Today we took it west to the peak at the beginning of the canyon, then turned around and rode it all the way east until we got to the elbow! It was a serious climb. Here we are at the elbow, with sunset upon us, and so we've just got 10-20 minutes to make it back to the car before dark. Luckily that's pretty easy via the road.

Let's keep it under 30 mph, allright? I was surprised to see the road was not plowed. We were riding in a winter wonderland! We were glad the trail e climbed up on the north side of the mountain wasn't snow covered like this. But it felt kinda hardcore, so it was fun. We didn't slip and slide. 

And when we got to Maple Grove where a winter gate was blocking off the road to cars. Ah ha. So I learned that this is the Millcreek Canyon Nordic Track in the winter. Fun! Someday maybe we'll get fat bikes and do winter riding around here.

Tuesday - one pull up, overate. Feeling bloated and not good

Wednesday - 4:40 pm walk, 3.64 miles, 1 hour 14 min. 20 handstands against wall, 10 left 10 right, and 25 minutes of stretching, some warrior tai chi movement

Thursday - Walk at 9:40 while K was at a friend's house, 3.35 miles, 1 hour

Friday - Walk around the neighborhood this morning at 7:30, 2.46 miles in 42 minutes. Then a walk with Natalie down to the grocery store after she got home from school, 1:30 pm, 3.17 miles, 1 hour 4 min. 2 dead hang chin ups. Fasted for neighbor and her little baby boy who had open heart surgery at 2 days old. 

Saturday - 8 am I was out shoveling a lot of snow before Abi had to leave for GMS, and then they said their class would be on zoom. It's all right, we got it done, but I wasn't planning on getting all sweaty doing that. Across the street they hardly have any, it's not fair. Went out to eat with Corey last night, then started a fast again for our neighbor and her baby. 

Nov 4 - 9

Monday - chin up, pull up, handstands

Tuesday - Lily stayed home from school feeling unwell, so after I got the kids off to school, I left her with K and went on a walk. It was nice. 4.5 miles, 1 hour 32 min

Wednesday - chin up, pull up, hang, 20 handstands, one for 70 seconds

Thursday - morning walk to Sunrise Point at 7:30, had to hurry to get home to wake up the boys. 2.35 miles, 33 minutes

Friday - chin up and pull up, I can still do one

Saturday - Temp was in the low 50s so Corey and I went on a ride, started 3:45 up Millcreek Canyon to the Rattlesnake Trailhead and up to Pipeline from there. My first time doing that climb, 20 switchbacks! Then a flat ride alone pipeline, muddy in places but overall not bad. 10.37 miles, 1 hour 32 minutes