I know it’s Wednesday and the weekend is long past, but I just got back from skiing in Colorado with SpeedyKate and it was fantastic! Snowcapped mountains, sunshine, skiing, and copious amounts of Mexican food miiight just equal my ideal weekend experience.
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We went to Copper Mountain and Breckenridge with her parents. The conditions were “spring” to say the least – meaning a bit warm in the afternoons and a bit icy/crusty in the mornings, but overall it was pretty freaking glorious. The number of words needed to express and explain my love for skiing would fill many a blog post…so let’s just say that I love skiing a lot and leave it at that for now.
Luckily SpeedyKate lives up to her name in skiing as well as running. Not that I wouldn’t have waited for her at the bottom of every run, but it was really nice that I didn’t have to! (That sounds incredibly arrogant, but let me explain: I ski raced instead of going to high school, so I’m pretty speedy on the slopes.)
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In addition to days up and down the moguls, SpeedyKate and I got up extra early in the mornings to run pre-skiing. I’m sorry to report that I was a bit of a whiny-pants. Despite my summers spent running at 9,000 feet, the altitude really got to me this time! The scenery was gorgeous, but at 9,600 feet, a morning run in Breckenridge may have been the worst 28 minutes of my life (pure exaggeration there, but you get the idea). Every step felt like the very end of a race, and I may have thrown a (mostly) internal runner’s tantrum…sorry SpeedKate…
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We also met up with Amy, one of my college track teammates, for a run in Denver (oh the relative luxury of 5,000 feet!). We looped around a park just like old times in Boston, except this time we were accompanied by an adorable dog and I was gasping for breath.
The long weekend ended far too soon and we were both so sad to leave. I am currently trying to figure out how to move DC closer to mountains so I can work in my field but also be a semi-ski bum...any ideas?