guests

We got to host two bike tourers last night as they took the very long way from Wisconsin to Arizona.  Megan and Hector dropped by on their trip down the Front Range and we fed them lots of red meat and Colorado IPAs.  Always a great night chatting with folks who are doing such things.  Maybe someday $100 and I will pull the trigger on such an adventure.

Of course we treated them to breakfast at the Purple Castle before they departed for Canon City.

And yet another clean plate club sticker gets to go for a ride.

weekend

Good day on Saturday over at the Bobcat 25K.  Cankle is still very weak and running the technical trails of Palmer Park probably wasn't the best idea, but it held up well.  The run actually went a lot better than I thought it would, and it gives me some hope that I won't have to walk the entire Mt. Desert Island marathon in a few weeks.

On Saturday afternoon $100 and I hit up the Manitou Heritage Festival.  28 breweries, and we hit all of them except for the cidery place.  After that we did a short pub crawl in Manitou, visiting the Legion, the Keg, and the Royal Tavern.  Good times!  Focus On The Beer has more pics of the event.

Was fairly sore and hungover on Sunday so I knocked out an easy four miler in the Garden and took the dog for a good hike.

It seems like my ankle injury kicked off a wave of bad luck for a lot of runners in my circle here on the Front Range.  Walsh and Shad shit the bed at the Rabbit (though my neighbor, Alex, won Pikes and the Rabbit, so it's not all bad).  Tom and Jeff tanked the Bear.  Even Carson couldn't complete his recent hike up Mt. Whitney.  Might have to sacrifice a cat to get rid of this curse.

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Nacheaux brought me some of this back from her recent trip to Wyoming.  Pretty good stuff.

$100, the dog, and I got out last evening for a run/hike up Red Mountain.  Been a while since I've been on that route.  Someone has been fixing up the trail, so thanks to whoever did that.

Easy five miles this AM, down to Cerberus Brewing and back.

running again

Two good runs this weekend, different directions of my 10K Garden road loop.  About an hour each.

No running on Monday, but I did bike home via Cheyenne Canon.  Going to ride there as much as possible while the weather remains decent.

Easy five miler in the Garden this morning.

Cankle still isn't 100%, but I need to start running again so I don't get too much fatter than usual.

Followed the Appalachian Trail FKT debacle today.  I want to believe.  It's just really, really, really hard to.  Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Meltzer told Outside Magazine that his first beer after finishing his hike was a Yuengling!

summit sunrise

Had the in-laws visiting from Orlando and we took them up the Pikes Peak Highway on Sunday.  The highway usually opens at 7AM, but this was one of two days of the year they open early so you can drive up and catch the sunrise.  So at 5:15AM we headed up and braved some pretty heavy winds to catch a glimpse of morning.

The dog got to tag along, but she was no fan of that wind.

pics 'burgh

Clearing the phone of the recent trip to the 'burgh and Titusville.  I'll always love western PA and I can't wait to go back.

Holly

My brother sent me this pic the other day.  One is his dog, the other is my mom's pup.  Both are named Holly.

Every dog my parents have owned, since I can start remembering shit around five years old, has been named Holly.  I think this is the sixth one.  My dog and my brother's dog would make eight Hollies that have been in the Teisher family over the last few decades.  The first few were mutts taken from the local pound, but after I left the house my dad found some Amish dude with a chocolate lab puppy and since then the current Holly has been some kind of lab.  Including mine, who thinks she is a weimariner but does have some lab in her.

Here is $100 walking the Hollies during our recent trip to Titusville:

Oh yeah, we got our Holly this sweat new collar on our trip.  Her new nickname is The Terrible Dog.

back at it

I will post a longer review of my Pittsburgh trip when I get some time.  I had a fantastic time.  And of course Pitt beat Penn State.

Last Friday I went for a run.  Wanted to hit Schenley Park while I was home.  Six miles there, another 5K on Saturday morning in Titusville.  On Monday and Tuesday I ran back here in Colorado.  The cankle is not healed yet, but I think I'm not making things any worse by running on it.

Cerberus Brewing has opened it's doors.  Went there last night.  Only 2.5 miles from the house.  While I was riding my bike there last night I passed by the set of a netflix movie starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. 

In other local news, Chris Carmichael was bit by dogs yesterday while biking in Cheyenne Canon.

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whiskey #33

crusty butt

Great time out in Crested Butte over the weekend.  Rained a bit, so we didn't get as much riding in as we'd have liked, but we finally got to ride the 401 trail which was every bit as awesome as advertised.  CB seems like a super dog and van friendly town, and we will definitely be back.

Off to Pittsburgh tomorrow to visit some family, drink some Iron City, and watch Pitt kick the crap out of Ped State.  Cankle is still jacked up but I am hoping to run some miles in Schenley Park while I'm back.

A few pics from the past weekend:

bike

Still having fits with the cankle.  The swelling is down, but the pain is still there.  Still a ways off from running.  Been hiking the dog a lot, that hurts but it's manageable. 

Biking on it is fine.  I rode the Rampart Rager 100K gravel grinder on Saturday with no ill effects.  Rode to work on Wednesday, returning home via Cheyenne Canon.  Even got up early today to get in an hour of singletrack in Red Rock Canyon.  All this riding has me thinking of trying my hand at the 12 Hours of Penitence in early October.  We shall see.  Part of me would like to race again, but part of me is really glad to be done with big races for the year.

We have already paid for our Maine vacation, and finishing the Mt. Desert Island marathon hopefully won't be a problem, though I'm guessing my time will be on the wrong side of four hours.  Even slower if there is beer on the course.

And I signed up for adult bouldering league at CityRock again!  Starts late September!