Aug 25 - 30

Monday - 3:30 pm Solo ride to ruins, techy too. 11.24 miles, 1 hour 33 minutes, it smelled so nice after the rain last night! 

Tuesday - 6 am Morning rock climb at Ft Union:

• Light wall lemon v0
• Orange V2
• Cave purple V1 attempt
• R>L got it
• L>R made it to green
• L>R got it!
• East Yellow V1
• Light orange V3
• East blue V2
• Light wall lime V2
• R>L got it
• Light orange V3

Biked with Daniel to Karate, 3 miles, 21 minutes. Mowed the lawn - .72 miles walking in 26 minutes

Wednesday - 3 pm ride to ruins and Techy, got 2nd bridge rocks, yay, AND the lisa rocks, went to the left. 11.54 miles, 1 hour 37 min. PM stretching

Thursday - Morning bouldering at Millcreek - Total 30 sent. 

Then 7pm ride in Corner Canyon, Ann's and Rush trees, 6.78 miles in 56 min. 5 PRs:

1. PR Anns piece 1.31 miles in 10:51
2. PR Clarks bridge to top of Anns trail 3.24, 31:16
3. PR Ann's Trail 2.24 miles, 19:21
4. bronze half Ann 1.32 miles 11:41 (PR was 11:15 on 10/16/23)
5. PR top of ann's .84 miles in 6:50

Stretching 55 minutes

Friday - Stretching as I played legos with Katharine. Was thinking we'd go climb for date night, but then date night didn't happen cause all our girls were gone (AL at Skyline football game, SN to Scofield) so Corey and I took ODPK climbing at Millcreek. Belayed kids, then did a few boulders with 

Saturday - Clarks & Rush with Corey at 7:36, we had to beat the sunset so I was going fast (plus felt antsy cause I had wanted to go for a few hours) and got 4 PRs! 

1. Coyote to the bench .39 miles in 5.03
2. Clarks bridge to bench: 1.08 miles 14:45 min
3. Top of rush (rush tom sawyer) .44 miles 1:45
4. Don't slow down now .79 11:18

Got home, gave P a haircut, DPK a bath, then out for quick bouldering at Ft Union Momentum with Lily. 

• Lily’s blue V2
• Orange V2 
• Kids area race (it's all new routes) R>L got it
• L to R right away, got it
• Kid area - climbed each color without resting.
• Green V3! Lily was trying it, I hadn't gotten this one yet, but I tried it after Lily's failed attempt and I got it first try! Woo!

Aug 18 - 23

Monday - 4:30 PM ride to ruins, 11.33 miles, 1 hour 29 min, got to top in 1:04:03! Tried to cancel Momentum today. FHE at Waterford playing soccer. Ethan brought some friends to Waterford from the Dominican Republic who were interested in trying climbing, so then Corey figured out how to pay for it, Corey and I went and belayed their two boys (Corey's a sucker for serving others via anything they're interested in, so yay that got me another month to climb!), I did one Yellow 5.10c and one Orange V2 boulder

Tuesday - Morning jog of Mt Jordan loop via tree farm, didn't stop and walk, 2.36 in 21 min, I got my 2nd fastest time in the 2 mile. Plus 34 min stretching later, and 2 pull ups

Wednesday - Bouldering this morning, not quite feeling it, did kid area R>L got it

L>R didn’t get it, R>L didn’t get it. Just 11 boulders total: 

• Orange V3 2x
• 1 V3 attempt
• 1 V2 send
• 4 V1s
• 3 V0s

Thursday - Morning hike from 1st bridge 3.82 miles, 1 hour 13 minutes. Evening ride to ruins during 24 hour fast, 11.30 miles, 1 hour 33 min. The Alta biking team was up there, lots of people, so had to pause a few times for them to pass or waiting for them, still good ride, I got the 2nd bridge rocks, 3rd time in a row! Weigh 139.8 after the ride, yay. I've been in the 140s like this whole year so glad to get it under even if just barely. Last Sunday night I was 150 (perimenopause?) 

Friday - I did the ride last night cause I was pretty sure I'd end up taking carpool this morning, which I did. Went climbing for date night: 

• NE Pink 5.11a cheated with 5.9 purple for the last half
• NE Red 5.10b
• SE red 5.11b I GOT IT!!! No rests or cheats! Woo!!
• SW pink 5.10d got it!
• West Green 5.8
• West red 5.10 b/c
• NW pink 5.10c
• NW Corner yellow 5.10c 2 rests

Saturday - evening walk/hike to my secret spot on the moraine. 4.25 miles, 1 hour 30 min

Here's the boulder from my walk down. 

(Another secret spot is by that lone pine up on the hill.)

Aug 11 - 16

Monday - Morning ride with Corey to corner canyon, we did Clarks and Rush. 

Tuesday - Ft. Union top rope with Corey - 

• West blue 5.10c
• East pink 5.10d
• South black 5.11a/b
• South blue 5.11a
• Center southeast corner Orange 5.10c
• East Blue 5.10c
• East north black 5.10c “it’s honest”
• Yellow 5.10b

Wednesday - Early ride to ruins. 12.98 miles, 1 hour 56 min. I got the 2nd bridge rocks, yay, second time this year! Then did techy 2x, then met Corey coming down from the ruins, back to ruins together, then techy to home. 

Thursday - 8am - started a walk but then had to come back for the AC to get repaired, hooray for that though (It was 92 degrees in our upstairs bedroom yesterday!)

8:43 pm Millcreek toprope with Corey while SN babysat Alive at Waynes, 1 hour 21 minutes

• West Orange 5.10a
• Green 5.10c one cheat one rest
• Black 5.10d got it!
• Red 5.10a
• SW Pink 5.10c rest and 2 cheats
• NW Lavender 5.10d one cheat, good!
• Green 5.10c got it
• North orange 5.10c one cheat at very end woo!

Friday - Dimple Dell Walk - 4.2 miles, 1 hour 26 min, plus 100 walking lunges and 4 passes on the monkey bars

Saturday - 7:30 pm ride in Corner Canyon: Clarks, Rush & Canyon Hollow. 4.40 miles, 37 minutes, 10 achievements. I had Avocado toast with an egg for breakfast. Tried to eat "macros" today. Watched video yesterday "Warrior Babe" - one thing I liked that she said was to look at yourself every morning and say "I can't believe I get to keep this!" referring to my body. That's a great way to look at ourselves, and we DO get to keep this forever thanks to Jesus' resurrection. He came and suffered and died for me to be able to have a body and keep it forever. 

Aug 4 - 9

Monday - Climbing this morning with Corey and Lily. Lily bouldered. She wanted to be sure to go before she started FSY today at BYU, she'll be gone until Saturday. 

Corey and I did 8 top rope:

• NORTH - Purple 5.10a
• WEST Red 5.11a/green 5.10b combo
• WEST Purple 5.10d one cheat
• WEST Pink 5.10d I liked that one! I was able to to it, it helped that it was not impossible
• WEST Red 5.10a
• SE CORNER Red 5.11b (pic below) 1 rest & 1 cheat at the top, had to grab a yellow to survive
• EAST Purple 5.10a one cheat
• EAST Blue 5.10c got it

Tuesday - Morning walk, turned hike around Bell Reservoir, turned jog home. 5.31 miles, 1 hour 46 minutes. <-- (that was my 700th Strava activity!) 90+ min of splits stretching, squats, pancake stretch, etc.

Wednesday - Bouldering at Ft Union by myself,  

• West wall - Purple V0
• Kids area R>L I GOT IT! Woo
• LIGHT WALL - Orange V2
• Lily’s blue V2
• Kids area L>R got to white/black
• This HIIT 1x 
• Kids area L>R  GOT IT
• HIIT repeat
• CAVE pink V3 attempt 2x

Evening stretching for 45+ min

Thursday - Ride to ruins with Corey, 11.27, 1 hour 34 min

Friday - Morning walk - 4.36 miles, 1 hour 20 min. Toprope at 8:30pm at Ft Union for date night - did 8:

• WEST WALL - Orange 5.10b
• Green 5.10b new
• Red 5.11b only one rest
• SOUTH WALL - red 5.10b
• Blue 5.11a one cheat
• Purple 5.11a attempt, finished using black 5.10c
• EAST WALL - pink 5.10d got it
• WEST WALL - Blue 5.10c

Saturday - 1 hour stretching this am (v-wall and back bend w/pillow), Bouldering at Millcreek with Lily at 1:13 pm for 1 hour 11 min. Didn't keep track of everything on Kaya, but did atleast 21, 11+  attempts, 10 sent, plus two kid area races with Lily, I won both haha