The body is an interesting thing
September 3rd, 2006
On Friday, I spent a pretty routine day at the office, then met Andrew to get the 45 minute intro to Word Press, and then headed home to hang out with the kiddos. Holly had plans to catch a movie, and I was on the hook to get the kids to bed. This went flawlessly and at about 8:30 pm all three kids were snoozing, I was feeling great, and my plan was to hop on the spin bike for an hour. I could only manage 45 minutes and felt like crap. Weird…
After that I was up till 3:30 am putzing around w/ Word Press (that’s a topic for a future post). Holly had plans to go hiking at 7 am that morning, so I was up at 6:30 making muffins with the kids. I was feeling wiped… when Holly got back, I threw a pair of shorts, my trail running shoes, and an extra shirt in my pack and hopped on the cross bike. I figured I’d be pretty flat, so had no real plan in mind. But to my amazement, the legs felt awesome. I ended up riding to a little town outside of Boulder called Marshall over to the foot of Eldorado Canyon and back to the base of Mt. Sanitas, a short but punishingly steep trail in the heart of Boulder. I locked the bike, ran up the back side of Sanitas, and down the front side. Then I got on the cross bike again and headed up Linden through Pine Brook Hills - this is a great paved climb in North Boulder. I rode down the back side of the ridge on some dirt roads and back to the house. It was an unexpected and fantastic workout… the body is capable of some really good things from time to time when you least expect.
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