Saturday Feb 9 |
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| Another windy honka, but warmer temps too, plus the sun was out and beaming big. On balance the warmer temps won out, and it felt nice and fine, a perfect Mt. Dew day. Fast trail conditions. |
| run 1:07:00 [3] | |
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| Up on trails at Happy Jack. It felt tough running in the snow, but it always feels pretty tough running in the snow. |
| biking 1:11:00 [2] | |
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Friday Feb 8 |
| skiing 1:33:00 [3] | |
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| No shortage of a constant supply of new fresh air blowing through; even with the wind, conditions were pretty nice. Not so many other skiers were out today. |
| run 54:00 [3] | |
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| biking 1:40:00 [2] | |
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Thursday Feb 7 |
| skiing 2:03:00 [3] | |
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| Driving back home west on the interstate from Cheyenne, it was *really* windy, with lots of grit and small gravel in the air. So I thought it was going to be really windy for skiing too, but later it wasn't so bad. The snow and grooming were great, and overall the conditions were excellent. So fine!
More road closures today, and the Wal-Mart parking lot was looking rather semi again. |
| biking 1:02:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Feb 6 |
| run 2:16:00 [3] | |
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| Down in Denver to examine a post-operative knee and render a prognosis (it looks like the patient will survive), and since I had some time left over, I went running in Cherry Creek Park.
First visit ever there; did a circuit around the reservoir, which ended up being a good bit long than I had guessed. It's the kind of place that looks like it was made for turkeys and eagles, though I so neither. Quite a few geese however, which really isn't the same.
RMOC has a map there, and I guess it's a decent enough area for beginner and intermediate O', which may be all that the club does there. Most of the area is rough open (which does look like it's on the rough side), augmented by some riparian woodlands (mostly cottonwoods?) and several beaches around the reservoir, which are presumably used for sunbabing. A little too cool for that today though. |
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| Afterwards, Kris and I headed over to Protos, where we had some truly excellent you-know-what. Highly recommended. |
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| C • Pizza 3 |
Tuesday Feb 5 |
| Yowsa!!! 1 [1] | |
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| run 51:00 [3] | |
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| skiing 21:00 [3] | |
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Monday Feb 4 |
| Yowsa!!! 1 [2] | |
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| Some Yowsa!!! was definitely overdue. Yowsa!!! |
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| I just want to state for the record that, having grown up in the American South, I never once ever heard of anyone stirring in pig brains in with their scrambled eggs down there. |
| skiing 2:08:00 [3] | |
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| Snow was just starting to taper off when I hit the trails, and the sun gradually appeared. The skies cleared off to the south, while snow continued to fall out of otherwise clear skies to the north, creating a very special look of snow crystals glimmering in the air as they fell. Later, heavier snow clouds moved back in and a right proper snow resumed and kept snowing the whole time I was out. Conditions were, of course, superb, especially since if was the third straight day with no wind. What a break! It's almost like being in Tahiti on a nice day! |
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| C • Just like Tahiti? 3 |
| Yowsa!!! 1 [3] | |
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| Night Yowsa!!! |
| biking 1:49:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Feb 3 |
| skiing 1:57:00 [3] | |
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| Second day without wind. Amazing! New snow too. So fine!
I went up in the early afternoon expecting an enormous Wee Ski crowd, but instead there were sub-normal weekend amounts of skiers. Since the conditions were so nice, the most likely explanation was: Super Bowl. Must be that even Wee Ski doesn't dare go up against the Super Bowl. |
| run 43:00 [3] | |
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| Would have been happy to have run longer, but the conflicting demand was wanting to get back home in time to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Even though I didn't run long, it was long enough to come across a yearling cow all by itself, obviously having been missed by the fall roundups. It looked pretty lonely and in fact it tried to trot along beside me, but I didn't trust it to behave itself, so I yelled at it and it turned around to go back and stand rather forlornly in the meadow it had been in. I didn't feel bad about it though--after a few months all by itself, there's no telling what kind of bad behaviors it could have picked up from the moose, including charges, stomplings, and frenzied gorings. |
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| C • Did you catch the opening? 8 |
| biking 1:12:00 [2] | |
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