Once upon a time, I was a runner. Heack, I'll go as far as to say triathlete, although I'm not very good at biking or swimming. (I even ran races, see? And apparently I was too fast for the camera to catch me.)
Now I have a baby and I'm slowly but surely easing back into work. (12 hours last week, 16 hours this week.) Do any mamas out there have advice on how to fit in some exercise along with taking care of baby and work?
Okay, so we didn't pick a very rough section of trail for the photo op, but I swear this was a pretty bumpy trail at times - at least for a complete newbie like me. We biked on a paved trail to Fraser, CO (about 2 miles from Winter Park) and went on some trails from there. I wanted to stay on the easiest trails (cause I'm a scaredy cat) but they were really ugly because a bunch of the trees had been cut down, so I braved the harder trails and it really wasn't too bad. Matt and I were both exhausted by the end of our ride, though! He found some iPhone app that tracks your ride, and blogged it here.
One more quick vacation post, and I promise I'll be back to my normal boring life. =)
On our first day in Winter Park, I decided it would be fun to head back to a trail that I had hiked with my family when we visited here several years ago - Byers Peak Trail.
(Actually my dad almost tumbled down Byers Peak after we reached the top of the trail, but luckily my mom vaulted down the mountain and stopped him from rolling down the mountain. But, I remembered that there was a really good view from the top, so I thought it would be fun to go again.)
Anyhoo, we got to the trail and started hiking. Pretty soon we started seeing some snow on the trail. No big deal, it was easy to walk around. Then the snow covered the whole trail, but we were able to follow the footprints of a couple of other hikers that had gone through the day before. The snow got up to about our knees, and the dark clouds of an afternoon rainstorm started rolling in... we decided it was time to head back to the car. We heard there was a white-out snowstorm in Winter Park the day before we got there, so we didn't want to get caught in a bad storm.
We didn't have any flurries on the way down, thankfully. We headed back to the condo and had a relaxing afternoon of reading, napping, and napping before a homemade dinner in the condo and watching The Dark Knight.
I love vacation...
