We started the weekend on friday night. We drove up to Kananaskis after my swim on Friday after work, so we didn't get out there until around 7:30. We checked in to the room, took Rudy for a little walk and headed down for a delicious meal. When we got back from dinner and we found rudy sprawled out on his own bed like this:
Yea I think he thought that he had died and went to doggy heaven. Multiple walks, an entire queen bed to himself.. what more could a dog need?
Saturday morning Ben was up bright and early and headed to the gym around 6:30. I, however, decided to sleep in a bit. I finally hit the road at 8 am. It was a little chilly, and my legs were feeling a little heavy, but it was a beautiful ride so that distracted me on that 1.5 hour bike.
When I got back we grabbed some brunch, exchanged our biking shoes for our runners and headed out on a hike with Rudy. It warmed up substantially by this point, and it was a beautiful day in the mountains. We planned on climbing to the Mt Kidd lookout but we couldn't find the trail head.. in fact I'm pretty sure a river was running down where the trail was supposed to be, so we wound up on some cross country ski trails up and down in the forest. It was beautiful.
After our hike grabbed our books and headed down to hang out by the outdoor hot tub to lounge before our massages. It was sunny and hot, and so relaxing. We hit up the Eucalyptus steam room before our massages, and then out massages were amazing of course. At this point we were feeling so relaxed, but a little bit hungry so we went to the pub for some beer and nachos. The combination of biking, hiking, sunshine, massage and beer made us ready for a solid nap, followed by another walk with rudy where we snapped this silly picture:
Yes. our dog is a goof. We headed to Seasons restaurant for a fancy shmancy dinner that night. Even the french fries were fancy and cooked in Truffle Oil. We washed everything down with a bottle of our favorite wine, Kim Crawford (as the waiter said "Everyone loves Kim" which made me think of my mom, cause everyone loves her to).
Sunday we got up and went for a run together, we wound up on a beautiful path that wound along the river. It was nice, except the whole way out was down hill so our whole way back was uphill. We followed that up with a quick dip in the hot tub and breakfast before we checked out and headed home.
This week we're just relaxing, letting our bodies heal. We leave next Thursday after work for Coeur D'alene. I took the last 2 days off of training and I am surprised by all the time that I have. On Monday we had leftovers so we didn't even have to cook. We were finished eating by 5:30 and I looked at the clock and thought "what am I going to do for the next 4 hours?!?!" Of course TV tends to suck a couple hours out of the day, then a bath with my book and the next thing I knew it was bed time. I'm going to go to hot yoga tonight, swim on Friday, and a bike on Saturday. The weather is supposed to be crumby, so perhaps we'll finally see one the the movies that I'm dying to see at the theater... Star Trek, Ironman, Now you See me, The Great Gatsby... all these movies that came out while I was studying and I really want to see but didn't have time. This weekend will also include some packing and preparing for our trip to Ironman CDA, along with some naps, and relaxing.
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