“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our times up- that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It has been a great Saturday so far. Of course it started with Avery screaming at 5 am for me to get up and come give her some cuddles…
I headed to the gym around 7:30 and after doing some mobility work I worked on a 5 rep front squat and got to 100 lbs. Then I took a bit of a rest and did a workout called Helen. It is 3 rounds of a 400 meter run, 21 kettle bell swings and 12 pull ups. My previous time was 14:57 and today I completed the workout in 12:08! I was really excited! I have to thank Ashley for helping me through the workout and keeping me moving.
Then Steve came to give Cross Fit a try. We did 1/2 of Cindy- so he got in 10 minutes of as many rounds as possible of 5 pull ups, 10 push ups and 15 squats. He got a a good workout in for sure!
After our workouts we met up with Richard at Upper Crust for a well deserved breakfast and a trip to the farmers market this morning.
Now I think it is nap time!
We started our final day at Red Rock Amphitheater with my friend from K-State that I haven’t seen in 15 years!
We had some amazing views from the top of Mt. Evans- 14,000 ft above sea level this morning. The only problem was that is was only about 43 degrees at the top! We have so many great photos, but here are just a few I had to share.
I have begun reading a book called Simple Abundance and it is has been a great book so far. One short story discusses how the author heard a song called “Standing knee-deep in a river and dying of thirst” picking up her daughter from work and how it brought her to tears. So I naturally downloaded the song.
It is a great song if you listen to the lyrics that discusses friends being taken for granted, a world full of strangers just waiting to make connections with us and things in life we all take for granted. We all have so much in our life but so often we don’t realize how lucky we are and simply look at others and refer to them as having the “good life”.
Sometimes it is hard to remember just how luck we are and how we have everything in our life that we need to make us happy.
We got up early this morning and headed up to a dude ranch close to the Wyoming. Shawn was a great teacher as we all caught some fish (other than Jenny)!
Day one of our holiday was great!
We started out by getting a workout in at Crossfit Roots. The workout went really well for Richard- not so great for me. It was 4 rounds of a 50 calorie row, 40 sit ups and 30 pull ups. Because I hadn’t been taking care of my hands- I ripped on the first pull up I did (at least it was jus a small rip) then I had an awful time breathing on the row, so I ended up doing 3 rounds. The altitude makes such a difference. Richard made it through all 4 rounds I was really proud of him!
So we are off to Boulder in the morning… we have an exciting busy week coming up!
However- just because we are on holiday it doesn’t mean that we can go crazy and eat anything- the challenge is still going on.
We have made it thru 2 days of the summer challenge. Today was especially hard as we went to brunch with friends… we stuck to our Paleo diet- which means no alcohol!
Tomorrow we hit the gym at 8!
The Johnsons 