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Sloans Lake Park

January 27, 2013 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 40s...then nearly 60 by afternoon!

Comments:
Jesse came to Dallas' at 0830 for a run. I did some stride analysis to help with his chronic heel pain, then we ran.

Went easy from Dallas', west to Sloans Lake Park, a solid 3ish mile loop around an urban lake.

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Back felt a little sore, but otherwise the stride felt good. Both Dallas and Jesse are former collegiate all-americans (I think - either way they were fast as shit) but are out of form a bit. I was surprised at both of them at how slow their turnover was. Hmmm...

Post-run: cleaned up, then drove out to Red Rocks Ampitheatre in the foothills. By the time we got there it was pure sun and nearly 60. What an amazing place!

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When we got there there must've been 200 people working out there! Running stairs, doing random workouts, etc. Very cool! Then we saw a big "boot camp" group doing a workout and watched them....quite captivating, given there were SEVERAL very attractive, fit women in the group. Come to find out it's 3hr class, that's FREE! SUPS cool. Golly, I wish I lived there. I'm basically forcing Dallas to go back and flirt on my behalf. Or at least in my honor.

Post-amp, we drove this "lookout mountain" road, which climbs an 1800' high rise between Red Rocks and Golden, CO. Rhere were tons of cyclists going up/down, as well as trail runners at the top. Very cool.

Drove down to Golden to go to this little "coffee house brewery"; had a couple beers and enjoyed the sun!

After that, hit the airport and headed home. Pretty solid weekend. For a while I felt really bad about not going home. I still do, but news of an ice storm Sunday night made me feel less guilty.