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Steamworks 2019
Earlier this week I posted my goals for this year's Steamworks half: I did not make my A goal, coming in about 50 seconds slower than my time two years ago with a 1:48:10, but that time satisfies my B goal of sub-1:50. I think I might I also ran a much better-paced race this year, which was really my primary goal, so I'm quite happy with how ( Read more... ) -
back to the half marathon
Today I did my last run before the Steamworks Half Marathon, which will be my seventh time running this race. (I have a standard pre-half-marathon workout of about four miles: two easy warm-up, one easy with strides, half a mile at goal pace, and then easy the rest of the way home.) The weather is expected to be sunny and hot, as it has been every ( Read more... ) -
biking AND house!
As some of you know, Colorado had a late-season snowstorm earlier this week, but it cleared up beautifully for the Memorial Day weekend so we went on a bike ride! Here is the Strava map: basically, we rode the Skyline Trail (for some value of 'rode' which includes a whole lot of walking the bike up steep and rocky switchbacks, for me at least) up ( Read more... ) -
oh, yeah, we moved :-)
We moved into our new house! Okay, we moved in three weeks ago, but the settling in has been gradual and so I had been waiting to document things until we got a few more boxes unpacked. Even now, things are still not yet all in their proper places. My desk would have had to be disassembled to get it in through the narrow office doors, and it ( Read more... ) -
White Rim 2019
Our friend Ryan puts a White Rim trip together pretty much every year, and because she likes us :-) we get to go pretty much every year: I've posted here about 2017, 2016, and 2013 (and we also did it last year, though I only mentioned it briefly in a general post, and we did it twice with other groups when we lived in Boulder in the 1990s). This ( Read more... ) -
I won a 5k (sort of)
Yesterday I ran my first race in nearly a year, the Run the Rim 5k, and...I won! There are a whole lot of asterisks and caveats here, but it was a great feeling, and a good sign overall. The race was around the local college campus, Fort Lewis, and the start was about a mile from my new house, a perfect warm-up ( Read more... ) -
still running
Huh, from recent posts in my journal it looks like all I'm doing is building a house. Well, that's...not far from the truth. I see that the last time I posted about running was last August, when I decided to DNS the Thirsty Thirteen half marathon, and the last biking was our Thanksgiving vacation to Scottsdale. But I get super antsy without ( Read more... ) -
light at the end of the tunnel!
After a few weeks of pretty much nothing, the crews came back and are working full-tilt on our new house. We have an estimated date for the Certificate of Occupancy, which means we have an estimated official move date: April 12th - six days before the closing on our current house! We've started packing things in boxes and moving them into the ( Read more... ) -
eventually we might have a new house
Nearly two months after discovering problems with the wood flooring, we...still don't have a new floor. The old floor has been ripped up, though, finally, and the new flooring that we chose is in boxes waiting to be installed. The delay is because manufacturer wanted a second inspector to come look at it, and he couldn't get here until about a week ( Read more... ) -
house update
We went up to the house on Saturday to see if any progress had been made. And...there is some. The floor has been completely installed (with the replacement floorboards), and that means the baseboard trim could be installed also. (No photos, though, because it's all covered with paper for protection). Unhappy ETA And...it turns out the floors are ( Read more... )