The last few days I've done a decent job of logging miles and minutes. I ran Friday through Sunday, with each run getting progressively longer. Sunday's run was the pinnacle of this running series: the Challenge Hill. Road 940 to the Little Flattops did not disappoint with its climb, the flowers, and the vista. We've watched summer progress via the flowers on our runs here. First the glacier lilies made their appearance and then came the red paintbrushes, the lupines, and the stickly geraniums. Columbines! Sunday we saw more yellows: little golden eyes and craggly grandads. The dark purple larkspur stole the show, though. We started our run higher up this time, just past Chapman Reservoir at the duck pond. After checking in with the shepherd to make sure we wouldn't come across sheep and more importantly, scary sheep dogs, we were off. The climb is tough. Forty minutes was our goal. It's slow going but the flowers and the spot where the trees part, letting us see all the way to the Zirkels kept us going. We made it past the rough four wheel drive portion and with two minutes left, began running on the single track. The dramatic vertical wall of the mountain helped us decide that next time, we would start at the single track with hopes of a summit. After a small breather we began our descent of 25 minutes. Today I took a break from running and sweated like a pig with the following:
Circuit One (perform each series three times with 1 minute rest between series)
Series One
- 30 sec step ups, each leg
- 1 minute squats
Series Two
- 1 minute jumping jacks
- 30 sec pushups
- 30 sec bicycles
Series Three
- 1 minute burpees
- 1 minute walking lunges
Cardio Push
- side shuffle to leap
- mountain climbers
- flutter kicks
- pillar planks
- side lunges
Circuit Three (perform each for 30 sec, no rest)
- bicycles
- flutter kicks
- prone supermans/back extensions
- scissors
- reverse crunches
- V-sit isometric hold
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