What ever it takes!

Up to Timp Cave parking lot and back.  I got my first flat tire of the year, which is amazing for me. 

Here is my rant.  Why is it that cities pay millions of extra dollars to put in nice fancy bike lanes (which I am grateful for) but then they don't bother cleaning them.  How hard would it be to just run the street sweeper down the bike lanes twice during the summer.  By this time of year there is so much debris in the bike lane it's pretty much unusable.  So if any of you are the drivers that wonder why bikes ride out in the middle of the road instead of on the side, that's why.

1 hour on the elliptical followed by weights.

32 laps in the pool followed by weights. 

I'm going to try and quit my job today, I've been trying since Monday, it's harder than one might think.

Rode from my new office building (in 3 weeks) up Provo Canyon, and up to the top of South Fork and back.  Pretty dang cold coming back down.

Past Carina and Lily on the way up and again on the way back down, those are some fast girls.

Slept in this morning for some reason, which was nice but limited the time I had.  20 mile ride around Alpine and back.

My original plan for today was to fly to Phoenix with my son and drive a new car home but I spent too much time haggling over the price and it got sold out from under me.  Bummer!

Pretty excited about my RUN!!! today.  Woke up feeling pretty good and decided to give running a try again.  Went well, some weird aches and pains from my body not being used to running but it felt good.  6 miles in 50:35

One more thing I'm going to quit, and I feel really sad about it.  I've been going to Life Time Fitness for I think 9 years now, ever since they opened but now with my new job being in Utah County it doesn't make sense to drive all the way there and back again, it would defeat the point of getting a closer job.  So this will be my last week at Life Time  :(.  I really like that place.  The new office has a semi gym with 3 treadmills, some ellipticals and stationary bike but no weights.  I'll try and live with that for a while.

For my new job I have to pass a certification test, I have been listening to the books on mp3 while working out, for some reason I can't concentrate as well when I'm running, plus running was hurting a little bit so after 2 miles I switched to the elliptical.

How can you tell when someone is having a midlife crisis?  Because they buy one of these!

And it's Awesome!!!  

Went rock climbing with Craig (RAD's husband).  First time I've ever been real rock climbing before.  I think I did OK, I made it to the top twice and repeled down but I really don' t like the feeling of hanging on for dear life, even knowing someone is holding the rope down below it's still a very un-easy feeling.

Rode up to Tibble fork reservoir and back.  AF canyon was crazy crowded this morning.  Bikers and runners everywhere.

I've been trying to save myself up so I could run in San Francisco, well I headed out this morning and I just hurt, everywhere.  I'm not sure what is wrong or how I let myself get so bad off but everything just hurts when I run, my feet, my ankles, my knees, my butt.  I really took for granted when running just came natural.  Jogged out to Pier 39 and ended up walking most the way back to the hotel.

This is going to be a long trip, my last conference with this company then I turn it all over to RAD's husband.

Relatively successful run out to the top of Fort Mason and back. 

Pretty good run out to Fort Mason hill and back.

Fort Mason run, Again!

What is up with the blog, All I've ever wanted is a fastrunningblog mobile app, and I get social network buttons and a strange new look.

Very good nostalgic run today, I was determined to make it out to at least Crissy field once this trip.  There is a little lookout point at 5 miles that I like to run out to and just look at the Golden Gate bridge and watch the boats for a bit.  Today is my last day with iBAHN, it's been a really fun job, I've traveled the world, ran in amazing places and made a lot of great friends, but as I've been talking to my kids this week I realize it is time for me to get off the road and spend more time with them before I mis their entire childhood.

This is my favorite place to run I think, I've probably ran it more times than any run in Utah,  I pretty much give credit to learning to run while here at this same conference I think 5 years ago.  Before then jogged, I came to San Francisco for 3 weeks and when I got back I realized somewhere along the way I learned to acutally run.