44 degrees with just a few clouds here in Crested Butte. Legs were tired from the last 2 days and I thoughtnI would shorten my run, but once I got going I felt better. Did some pretty smooth single track trai. Wisely walked over this pretty long stretch of boards with wide enough spaces between them that it was a huge trip hazard. I tried running, then decided it was dangerous for a more agile person and for me it was just stupid. My ego was telling me to shut off my watch and just take that stretch out of the run, but that was stupid. I walked, had a 13 minute mile, but what the hell. 5.2 miles done!
This morning was sunrise yoga, outside in a beautiful setting. The yoga studio I go to has offered this all summer in conjunction with our city parks department – outdoor yoga twice a week. This morning I dragged my husband along, for his first yoga experience, and he liked it.
The humidity finally broke here. Yesterday the temperature wasn’t that high but the humidity was over 90% – so I went the dreadmill route to do 3 miles.
It is a beautiful day here and I had a great 16.5 mile run this morning. The weather is perfect and the run felt great. I like my Saturday long runs but every time I have a run that is a longer distance than I’ve ever done before, I’m a little apprehensive about it. I could have gone farther this morning, but chose to stick close to what the training schedule calls for.
MOWC-good call walking that section. I can fully appreciate the internal debate about turning off the Garmin, haha. Glad you had a good run.
fireandrain-that outdoor yoga sounds really fun!
Yay to all Saturday morning trail, beach, lawn, etc. warriors! 
C3Baker and Gertrude, congrats on conquering the new distances. MOfWC, that was a smart move. I too do not like it when my Garmin begins to show abysmal pace… so I would take off like a bat out of hell after every water break, and it would kill me. So I learned to live with it! I do not think we become older - we simply become smarter. 
And fireandrain, how cool that your husband went to yoga with you and enjoyed it! The hotel in Ko Olina where we like to stay offers beachfront yoga, and last time we were there, I noticed that about 10-15% of “yogi” were dudes. I have thought about dragging Mr. to one of these classes… Some day.
We are off to do some lazy hiking and possibly some wine tasting. I’m resting my legs for the (not so) long run tomorrow. I cannot believe my marathon is about 2 weeks away!
Lazy hiking? Can you describe that?!!!
Can’t wait to cheer you on in 2 weeks BB - and in two weeks and one day, you can tell us all your fun stories from the race.
3 and some change run tonight - met H and pup near the end, walked with them a few minutes then added on another .5 mile.
Went for a ride and felt like it was really hard. I think I may have racked up a PB at my lake trail, which is the harder one for me. My perception was that I was going as fast and as hard as I possibly could the whole time. I was beet red and pretty tired at the end. Had a late dinner with friends last night and did NOT want to get up, so I got to the trail a tad late, when it was getting hotter.
9 miles… No kidding, Nrdsb! Getting up at 6 was somewhat hard after a late dinner last night.
^^^I set my alarm to six but kept hitting the snooze. Didn’t get up until 6:40. Bad me. 
10 miles with too many hills. No surprise miles this run, I felt each and every one of them!
Nrdsb4, why do you feel that you must/should ride as hard as you can???
Just saw a FB post from a local running group page I follow and they were talking ID Bands and running with identification. Taking a poll: how many of you run with ID on you??? Just curious. Have to say, though I’m not running far, I don’t. Haven’t really thought about it.
I posted on CC “Replies to: Eureka! Why didn’t I “discover” these products sooner?!” #419 on what I learned at Pampered Chef event yesterday. I am finding some ways to cook/eat light. Really like the handy items. Also learning on the CC thread.
Lol, I guess because I read that one should attempt to maintain a cadence of 80-100 rpms. Depending on the terrain, that’s working pretty hard for me! Also, still trying to lose weight after hitting a plateau.
I’m planning to ride the 22K bicycle path soon at Stanley park during my trip to Vancouver, BC. I probably will go more for recreation than training. We’ll see how it goes!
abasket, I usually keep my expired DL in a ziplock baggie in my back pocket.
That was one of the things suggested - an expired license. Another was a ROAD ID band that can be attached to a fitness strap.
So, I guess my Spotify playlists won’t be enough to identify me, huh???
I don’t go out the door to run without my RoadID. Now a I have one that attaches to my new FitBit Charge. You should always have ID with you. A biker was killed awhile ago here in Crested Butte and he had NO ID. It was extremely difficult to identify him.
I wish iDad would come back so I could brag about my difficult hike today. We started at about 10,700 feet and went up to 12, 200. It was SO hard! There were steep portions and rocks (no scrambling) and then it would sort of level off. We got to the top of the ridge and we were at the top of the world. We could see huge peaks in all directions. I bailed out of the last little add on that my H and our host did because it dropped off on both sides and it made me too nervous. They came back to the flat part at the top to eat lunch with me. My goal was to make it up and back and not fall. Achieved! H had more trouble coming down. His quads got really tired, but he’s mountain biked the last 2 days. A stretch goal for me was to not be afraid of any of it, and I didn’t quite make that. It was, basically Trail 419 above Crested Butte. It took about 40 minutes to get to it on bumpy dirt roads.
The last time I hiked at elevation, I was worried about my cardiopulmonary ability to handle it. It turned out that went really well, but on the way up, I pulled a hip flexor, and that was incredibly miserable.
Wow, hiking at such altitudes is a real challenge! Tried that at the Haleakala volcano park in HI, although it was just a notch below 10,000 ft. Many folks get down into the crater not realizing that going back up is going to be much harder than what they are used to. Kudos on not falling, MOfWC!
12,000 ft is really getting up there. The air gets pretty thin. Sounds like a great hike!
I went over 14,000 once when I was in my early 20’s, and I thought I was going to die. It took three days before I felt normal again.
Yeah, 12,000 is really something!
Last time I stayed at a condo around 9000 or so, I didn’t feel very well.
We’re planning a hiking trip to Peru (Machu Picchu) this May, where the highest altitude is above 14,000. Gulp. I’m fully planning on asking my doctor for the prescription medicine that is supposed to help prevent altitude sickness. And we’ll spend several days acclimatizing before starting the hike. But I’ve heard scary stories of how altitude sickness can affect people. I’ve hiked in the Rockies, going above 10,000 feet, and I don’t recall suffering much more than a headache.