We spent the last week on a little vacation/roadtrip to and around Southwestern Colorado and rather than some long report about the trip here are the highlights:
- My trunk remained free of junk. As of today I have 16 days with no junk in my trunk. No ice cream, no chocolate, no desserts, etc. REALLY REALLY sucks on vacation. I need to figure out moderation.
- I really am a cyclist at heart. I was looking a lots of roads along our trip and thinking how I'd love to ride them on my bike. I learned about a bike race called the Ironhorse which races the steam train going from Durango to Silverton. It takes the train (which we rode) about 3 1/2 hours make it's trek. The train route is shorter but slow through the mountains. The road route is long: 50 miles, and steep - roughly 2400 ft of elevation gain landing you in Silverton, CO just over 10,000 ft above sea-level. (By comparison I live at 5800'). I drove the road the next day and I really think it'd be fun to do this ride. Happens in late May. I need to work on my hill climbing skills.
I also drove from Ouray, CO to Telluride and back - and I kept thinking what an awesome ride that would be - especially since much of the road was brand-new and oh so smooth.
- Jay took the rough route from Ouray to Tellride. He ran a race which is 17 miles over 4x4 jeep roads. The run is call the Imogene Pass Run. 1200 crazy people sign up for this race and Jay came in at 100th place. He was really happy with how he did and felt great afterwards. Epecially excited to beat one of his Nemesis: Fred. Fred and his twin brother, Ed. Do all these same races that Jay does. Ed is really fast and isn't even close to Jay. Here's the trick: Jay's mom went to school with these guys. So they're like 65 years old and on top of that Fred was in an accident when he was younger and never supposed to walk again. And yep, Jay beat him - by 40 seconds. It was proud moment. Love to give him shit about this.
- I was sick most of the trip coming down with a cold. So along with that and the vacation I didn't workout one single time.
- I Love, Love, Love Ouray - I'm going to start buying powerball tickets and figure out how to live there. I will be going back - often. And with my bike.
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You better do that train race!!! And how can you not have hill training? You live in the freakin mountains!
Sounds so nice. If I weren't so afraid of falling..I would bike ride. Good luck with those races, if you choose to do them!
Oh and good luck with the powerball! :)
Oh and CONGRATS to Jay too! How amazing!
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