Oct 30 - Nov 4

Monday - 100 second hollow and superman with Wes, and I did two chin ups (barely). Finished a daily gallon of water at 3:15pm. Going to see if drinking a gallon a day helps with weight loss or with my body feeling better. 

Tuesday - It's been too cold for us to take morning bike rides this past week, and Corey is feeling very not good, so we had to go today. We left at 3:30 and were able to do a pre-Halloween ride like we did last year. Felt great to be in the mountain, but it was super cold!!! I got 4 achievements:    

Wednesday - Sophi came home sick today, threw up at school (she ate a candy bar for breakfast...) sooo, since I had a sitter, I went for a quick ride at 2, since I knew I wasn't going to be able to do an evening ride (Owen had a dentist appt to get a cavity fixed at 4). Went to Corner Canyon for an hour, Did Rush, then Canyon Hollow, and Rush down and an extra Rush lap, 7.31 miles, 1 hour 3 min, 15 achievements (I did lower Rush 3 times, got a PR of 59 seconds! 59 seconds my first go down, then 1:02, then 59 again. I was glad I broke a minute!) I don't know where the other sections are that I got achievements for, except for Silica Pit and Rush, I did that in 4:50! Previous records was 5:01 on 7/15/23. Corey did Quarry today and made it to the top in less than an hour! 

He got 12 achievements, 8 of them PRs, 7 of those PRs on the climb! 

Thursday - Ride with Corey at 1:00 today to the Ruins, we did techy too. My legs were tired just coming up the hill from our house. I was not feeling it today. Corey got his 2nd fastest time on the climb at 1:02, I was 1:07 to the top. He waited for me a few times and I walked a few times, but I lifted his bike at the top, mine is a lot heavier (aluminum) his is carbon fiber. We might let me upgrade sometime. Corey teased "Just get your bike stolen!" Wes watched the kids for us, total distance 11.70 miles, 1:31:34 for me, no achievements on the climb, but today was the most fun I've had on the descent! I got a PR for the fastest section alive - 3:53 (I broke 4 min!) I wasn't scared today, I picked good lines and it wasn't crazy bumpy, just fun and fast. I took a selfie of us via BeReal but it didn't save and now I'm sad. That happens a lot tho, so I think I'm done with trying to use that app to capture moments. It doesn't work half the time.

Friday - 100 seconds hollow and 100 seconds superman with Wes

Saturday - Ride to ruins and back with Corey at 4:30, 11.39 miles, 1:24:53. I was feeling great today. PR for Fastest section again! 3:50! Also PR for the Lower half at 6:02, Pow Plant down PR 1:56 (finally broke 2 min) PR for Quarry up and down with techy 6.41 miles in 1:11. And PR for the whole downhill 3.6 miles 15:53. Got 3rd fastest time for 1st bridge to top (37:11) and 3rd bridge to top (14:41) Techy section 2nd fastest time 3:22

Oct 23 - 28

Monday - Feeling sore from the mountain climbers on Saturday. Didn't do on a ride cause I had a dentist appt this morning. Might try and go later after I get back from violin. I always hate eating after a dental cleaning and getting my teeth dirty, so I ate breakfast and then haven't eaten yet. Might wait until tomorrow. Feeling good

Tuesday - Ride with Corey up the canyon to the ruins. PR for Techy and 3rd fastest time for Fastest section alive. Around 4 today I also did twenty minutes of splits stretching - 10 min each side - while I read the Book of Mormon (love to multi-task doing good stuff like that!) And one 80 second handstand against the wall.

Wednesday - Cold weather coming tomorrow, should have gone out today but didn't make it. Only did a 90 second handstand

Thursday - It was snowing this morning! Today did shoulder stretches with a broom stick

Friday - 20 minutes of splits stretching. I started to get dressed at 4 for a ride, but then decided it was too cold. Maybe tomorrow evening I'll feel brave enough

Saturday - Still super cold outside. Did one chin up today and some stretching and handstands. I hope we can join Momentum again soon.

Oct 16 - 21

Monday - Corey rode the quarry trail this morning, I went out to Corner Canyon around 4:30. I took my silver bike (guys cutting down the tree had the bottom door blocked off with the tree debris). I took BST up to Anns, then Anns over to Edelweiss, around to Ghost, down ghost and Rush. 7.27 miles, 58.09 minutes. And with my silver bike I was able to beat all my times on Ann's from this year and last year. Gold medal (emoji!)

I got PRs for:

• Coyote Trailhead to Clarks Bridge .15 in 1:30
• Clarks/BST intersect to Potato Hill Climb 1.01 mi 9:33
• Clark's Bridge to BST Split .52 mi 4:54
• Potato Hill UH from BST Intersect .48 in 4:42
• Last 2 Turns til the tunnel .32 3:18
• Half Ann 1.32 miles 11:15
• Ann's Grunter .23 mi in 2:18

No PRs on Ghost falls, cause I was too busy taking in the scenery. That ride cannot be rushed.

It seemed like there were valentine hearts tossed all over the floor with love!

Pink and orange and yellow and green.

I love Ghost Falls

Tuesday - 30 minutes of stretching. This evening we hiked Y mountain for the lighting of the Y with our college kids tonight for BYU Homecoming! 

Steep trail, about a mile up and a mile back down (forgot to turn on my strava). The kids all did great! Peter was sad in the pic above cause he left his spiderman lego in the car. Hard climb on the way up, hard on the knees on the descent!

Wednesday - Ruins and back with Corey. 11.3 miles according to Corey's strava, mine says 11.21. PR for techy section at 3:39. Corey got a pr too for techy, 3.29. He was behind me and we were right with each other, so I'm not sure how that works. Splits stretching. Emotional Health - had a breakdown today that came up all of a sudden when Owen couldn't find his straw for trumpet (that his teacher just barely gave him) so I was frustrated mostly, I think, with the mess of our home and how things always get lost or no one puts them away where they belong.

Thursday - 20 handstands, 10 minutes of splits stretching

Friday - splits stretching

Saturday - This morning 500 mountain climbers, splits stretching, and then around 2:00 Corey and I went to Corner Canyon, did Anns, Edelweiss, and Rush with the Trees. 7.75 miles in 1 hour 1 min. Corey got PRs on everything on the climb! I got lots of 17 achievements, PRs on the descent. The full Rush via Trees time was a PR at 15:42.

• Rus top 2/3 - 10:49
• Scheming weasel - 4:33
• Trees - 5:37
• Fly by night to Rush 3:05
• Full Lower Rush - 9:48
• Mystic Rhythms - 3:58
• Sustained Speed - 1:15
• Rushing Corners Two - 1:42
• Chainless Rush - 3:45
• Rush the End - 28 seconds

Silver bike = good times on the climb. Fezzari = good times on the descent (if I'm feeling brave!)

Oct 9 - 14

Monday - I think we have two good days for rides this week, today and tomorrow, and then the rest of the week it's going to be cold. I hesitated this morning, Corey left, I decided to go and drove to the trailhead in time to meet him when he arrived there. He biked up to the ruins, I did techy twice. I like techy. Good stuff. 6.9 miles, 1 hour 10 min.  

Tuesday - Got up early today - drove to Wayne's then went up BCC, Wayne took Corey's car back to his house and Corey and I rode down there from Guardsman. 

I didn't remember to turn on my Strava until half way up "puke hill". So we'll go with Corey's stats: 22 miles, 2 hours, 1015 elevation. It was our longest ride on Strava! (my 2nd longest ride was around Park City on June 23 last year). Corey had his phone set up, so I erroneously just trusted where he was telling me to go. 

AND because of that, we went down two black diamond trails, Millcreek Meadows and Little Water descent. 

Next time I'll lead! He also didn't know where the trail was, so after we got to Upper Big Water trailhead, we ended up just taking the road the rest of the way down. That was fast so was cold for the last 8 miles and 26 minutes. Beautiful though! 

We might go up there for a cook out tonight. 

Wednesday - rain, stressed about life, ate too many goldfish crackers tonight, pm weight 140. Started taking a Garden of Life Daily probiotic this evening.

Thursday - Rainy. Stretched. Fasted all day and ate curry and rice for dinner. Bought a book at the DI called "Virgin Coconut Oil" by Brain and Marianita Jader Shilhavy. Then I went and bought coconut oil. 

Friday - Corey went on a ride this morning, First thing I did this morning was take a teaspoon of virgin coconut oil. It felt soo good on my throat! Maybe it will cure my hacking! I also remember a while back I was on a coconut oil kick and it made my skin feel so much better. Maybe the oil will also cure my itchy flaky scalp. I rode over to the school with Natalie and Daniel and then went on a very short ride. I was going to do the fishtail as fast as I could, then as I was coming to Wasatch, after keeping a good speed and feeling tired, I said "I actually don't want to do this..." and I turned around. Stretched for 40 minutes though! That was good. Weight before date night 133.4, yay. I'm hopeful that probiotics and coconut oil will cure some of what ails me.

Saturday - I was able to go on a ride tonight and see the lovely leaves. 

I did our usual ride, the quarry trail, but I didn't get any personal bests because I kept stopping to take pictures of the mountains and the trees. 

It was GORGEOUS!

I was soaking it up. I took my time and told myself "There is more to life than increasing it's speed". I didn't beat any of my ride times for any of the segments, but I did enjoy the colors and the trees and the smells. I did techy three times, and I even made it up the hill on my first go, yay! Pic below was on the way down - on avalanche hill - so pretty seeing the sun shine on the leaves on the mountains on the other side of the canyon.

So that filled my cup. I'm amazed at this beautiful world. 

Oct 2 - 7

Monday - rainy morning, with some snow in the mountains! Active rest day at home, did a lot of cleaning in the basement and vacuuming and going up and down the stairs

Tuesday - Wes took carpool, Corey went on a ride, I went on a jog/walk 2.81 miles, 33 minutes.

Wednesday - Raining. Corey went biking, I went on a very short 15 min walk up Bells canyon, collected some pretty leaves. 

Thursday - Lousy night last night with Kat and Peter waking me up like 20 times. Didn't get out the door this morning. 20 against the wall handstands, 5 right 5 left 5 R 5 L. I was able to make an escape this evening. I drove up BigCC (lovely fall leaves!) over Guardsman pass and down in to Park City. Started at 4:50 up Armstrong, past HAM and was on Mid Mountain but then turned around cause I was worried about getting stuck on the mountain in the dark. I came down Armstrong (even though it is uphill only) and took HAM and Spiro down back to the car. Total distance 9.25 miles, 1 hour 35 min. 10 achievements with some PRs beating our Park City times! PR for: Armstrong to Mid mountain (4.03 miles in 51:37 min, previous PR 7/31 57:01), Lower Armstrong (1.08 in 11:29, previous PR 8/4 12:34), Dawns to HAM (1.43 in 17:04, previous PR 8/4 was 18:48), Rock it (.19 in 2:18, previous 8/4 2:32) Upper Armstrong (.81 in 13:00, previous PR 7/31 15:25). 2nd place on my Spiro descent and some 3rd places on other Spiro segments. Hoping to go ride again tomorrow and/or Saturday.

Friday - Temple initiatories at 1:30, then went on a ride. 6.85 miles, 1 hour 1 min. Went to Silica then down the end of Rush, then connector to Canyon Hollow, up Ghost Falls, over to Peakview, down Rush, the Trees, 18 achievements, said I did rush the end in 29 seconds? I don't think that's right. Anyway, Strava said 3 PRs, 10 silvers, and 5 bronze. 

Saturday - Went on a walk at 8:45 am, 5805 steps, 49 minutes, 2.84 miles. Also explored a little in the mountains with the kids this evening. 

We need to get out in the mountains more often.

At Dogwood - 

Then to Hidden Waterfall