Dec 25 - 30

Monday - Merry Christmas. Overate

Tuesday - Corey and I left at 10 am for St. George. Went by Momentum in Sandy first, bouldered for about 45 minutes, then a 4 hour drive. Arrived in St. George around 3, went straight to the trailhead close to the Worldmark, did the Zen loop, then did Three Fingers and Bear Claw before it got too dark. Total distance 10.57 miles, 2 hours 7 minutes, elevation 1412

Wednesday - At 2:20 we started a ride up Gooseberry Mesa. Did the South Rim trail up all the way to the viewpoint...

...then took the north rim back down to 10.21 miles, 2 hours 15 minutes, 644 elevation gain. It was not a black diamond trail.

It was other worldly and super fun!!

Thursday - Fun dancing in the front room with the kids. Climbing.

Friday - up to Wolfcreek

Saturday - little bit of skiing at Nordic valley, climbing in the evening while Corey visited with friends from Guate

Dec 18 - 23

Monday - Climbing this afternoon by myself. Had a goal to get to 30:

• 2 V3 attempts
• 10 V2 sends (couldn't do the black V2 from last one at all! Maybe I need Wes there).
• 1 V2 attempt - green slab in OG sector
• 13 V1 sends 
• 1 V1 attempt - first try of the red one on the north boulder. Sent it on 2nd attempt
• 4 V0s

Tuesday - It was a fairly warm afternoon - 50 degrees! So I took a quick ride along the fish tail. Silver bike, I was working hard and thought I was going pretty fast, but received no achievements. :( sad

Wednesday - held a 2 min plank this morning, then climbing with Corey at 2, did a few new V1s and V2s. Total 18 sends. Then stretched my legs for 20 minutes

Thursday - Corey went to gym, then I went there too. Walked for 22 min on treadmill while I watched a few Dr. Berg videos. Then a 3 min plank (30 sec on hands, then slid/lowered to elbows for 30, them was able to bring myself back up to hands (without having to do one arm at a time!) and did that two more times, total 3 min, then 100 second superman. Then a few climbs - 4 attempts (a cute little boy, prob 8 years old, was with me and we both tried that purple V3 twice, we're both too short though! He is so good though, I saw him do an orange V6 on the north boulder, so impressed), 5 sends (black V2 3 times and two purple V2s)

Friday - Joseph brought my Fezzari bike back from Lindon after a repair, and it was a warm afternoon so I did a quick fishtail ride. 5.95 miles, 28 min 33 seconds, I got two achievements! 2nd place on the approach hill which surprised me, time 4:47 (. Also 3rd place for wasatch blvd light to the mouth of canyon, 1.59 miles in 10:25 (PR time on 9/2/23 was 8:13, so still lots of room for improvement there)

Saturday - I finished Christmas errands - got one last gift for Owen at fashion place mall, then went to Momentum. 9 V2 sends and a few attempts, I did a purple V2 that I hadn't done before, the one in the OG sector on the northeast corner of the boulder, I did it! I also did a blue V2 in the OG sector that I hadn't been able to do before, yay. I like just getting further on a climb than I've gotten the time before. On a green V2 I got to the almost last hold, yay. I only have a few V2s to do, but some of them seem a bit impossible

Dec 11 - 16

Monday - Climbing this morning by myself. Did 23 and none of them were V0s:

• 3 V3 attempts, none of them were close at all, lol
• 8 V2 sends (couldn't do the black V2 from last one at all! Maybe I need Wes there).
• 4 V2 attempts
• 7 V1 sends 
• 1 V1 attempt - the red one on the north boulder. Try it first next time

Tuesday - stretch legs for 15 minutes

Wednesday - bouldering:

• 1 V3 attempts (green round one on south boulder)
• 8 V2 sends (did the black!)
• 2 V2 attempts
• 5 V1 sends 

Thursday - little bit of stretching during scriptures

Friday - 40 minutes stretching, was ready to climb this morning after carpool but Katharine had me up at 4, I didn't have energy for it so I came home. I was hoping we'd go after date night or something but weren't able to, should have gone this morning.

Saturday - 1.1 miles walking on treadmill, 10 min stretching, then bouldering:

• 5 V2 sends - 4 purple ones and after 3 attempts I did the black one! With Wesley's help 
• 8 V2 attempts (4 problems, 2x each)
• 1 V1 sends 
• 2 V0 sends

then Corey belayed me for two long wall climbs, a 5.10a that had me totally wasted at the top, thankfully it was right next to an intro climb, so I had to finish off with that at the top, and then I did the intro climb as fast as I could and my arms were burning. 

Dec 4 - 9

Monday - Went on an afternoon walk (Abi was home sick) 1 hour 38 minutes, 4.61 miles, I did the last 45 minutes barefoot. I thought it would be fun to walk up the steep sandy hill barefoot, and it was fun! I was "grounding" haha. 

Tuesday - climbing with Wes this morning after carpool. We worked hard! Now I have a blister on my left palm. Total today was 21:

• 1 V3 attempt (black on north boulder)
• 6 V2 sends (purple OG, Blue north, Purple OG that Wes can do with just his arms by jumping to hold 4 today was my first time doing it! Purple North, Yellow south, black OG on the northwest side, I was shaky. that one was a first too!)
• 7 V2 attempt (yellow south, purple OG, purple OG, Purple OG, Purple OG weird one on the corner with the big slab), black OG, purple 40 wall, I touched the last hold again, next time I'm going to try it first when my hands are fresh and I'm going to get it!) Didn't realize so many of those are called Purple OG... next time I'll write down what makes each of those problems different/unique
• 4 V1 sends (pink south, black OG, Green OG, Blue north)
• 3 V0 sends (black south, lavender OG, Purple northeast)

Wednesday - morning jog with a little walking, 2.34 miles, 28 minutes. It was my 2nd fastest time on Strava for 1/2, 1 and 2 miles. 1/2 4:17, 1 mile 9:51, 2 miles 25:39. Listened to Caution Wasatch Style a few times, it was good jogging music.

Thursday - Climbing this morning by myself. Did 23 and none of them were V0s:

• 3 V3 attempts, none of them were close at all, lol
• 8 V2 sends (couldn't do the black V2 from last one at all! Maybe I need Wes there).
• 4 V2 attempts
• 7 V1 sends 
• 1 V1 attempt - the red one on the north boulder. Try it first next time

Friday - shoveled the driveway

Saturday - climbing at 9pm with Lily, Owen, Daniel and Peter. I did that last red V1! Now I've done all the V1s. I learned today that you can search the climbs on Kaya by level of difficulty. I searched the V1s - there are 12, and I had done all of them but that red V1, so I did it today. Took two tries. There are 22 V2s, and I've done 10. Something to work on this next week!