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Went for a ride today, 15 miles and a fair amount of elevation gain. If you look just above the helmet you can see the trail below.

Warden, that's some pretty country.

I'm starting to get the itch to head to the north slope of the Uinta's. The fish may not be biting but the mosquitos will.

fortunately the mosquitos weren't too bad, they were there, but relatively subdued

strength training this evening

deadlifts 3/3/3+/10
overhead press 3/3/3+/10
lunges 3x30 yds
chinups 3x11
core

Walked 4 miles

8 miles with my wife and Tiny E- did the Helena Ridge trail- gorgeous trail!

Just another 26 mile road bike ride this morning. Pretty fast for us, under two hours. Not much elevation gain on this particular course, 880' or so I believe.

Sure was nice out this morning. With light Saturday morning traffic, we were able to put the hammer down, managed to break 40 mph going down one hill. That's kinda fun on skinny little bike tires!

Regards, Guy

^^ yep! ^^

There's two hills I top 40 mph on and I agree, it's a blast.

I hope you use a daytime-bright white headlight/flasher up front.... I didn't at first, but I was blazing down a hill and someone almost pulled out of their rural driveway in front of me. Or, there was that super rich woman, former CFO of Amazon if memory serves, who was killed in CA a few years ago coming down a hill by someone who pulled in front of her. I remember thinking, a freaking $50 light and she'd still be alive. Anyway just a thought.

Too hot to walk so far.... Did spend a couple hours crawling around under my boat trailer fixing wiring and replacing corroded U-bolts. Abs workout.

River Boarded the Clack Fork with friends today.

Cardio Friday, weights yesterday, and going a few miles with the pack this morning, before it gets hot.

did Murph today (52:45), probably has been close to two years since I've tried it- it's still a tough workout

1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 air squats
1 mile run

I partitioned the first half with 5 pull-ups/10 pushups/15 air squats, decided to try something I read about this morning- doing 50 sets of 2/4/6, as I was halfway I did 25 sets like that

in another two years might have to try the whole 50 set deal

2 ocean days, salmon/crab were the focus, big pond kicked up pretty good today, I am one tired pup

Playing tour guide this week

A pretty solid shoulders and legs day. A mix of supersets and giant sets. I threw some dumb bell chest press in just for extra measure.

DB shoulder press/seated calf raise/leg extension
Seated lateral raise/prone leg curl
Rear delt DB fly/hack squat/cable rotations
Front plate raise/goblet squat/ab roller

This morning's ride was just shy of 45 miles and had nearly 1,800' of climbing. Good ride with a good friend.

Guy

Tiny Elvis and I got a good hill workout in- 4 miles total, gains 2300' in ~ 2 miles!

at the gym after work

squats 5/3/1+/10
bench 5/3/1+/10
pull-ups 3x11
dips 3x30
core

Walked 5 miles

SP, as the presumed resident expert, any elastic ankle brace that is the bomb? Suggestions for taping or finding particularly good instructions for taping? Cyn is planning on starting her big monthlong hike next week. The ankle is "ok" on flat ground, remains untested on uneven ground and with a pack. I know, I know... you try to talk her out of it, she's obsessed!

Our youngest is back from the Southern Hemisphere and is joining her for the first week or so. I'm planning on joining up somewhere in the middle. I'm absolutely swamped with work. Fawk.

Anyway, any ankle intel appreciated.

Well, before I had the ankle fused I tried a bunch of different ankle braces including the "gold standard" Arizona Brace which is among the most if not the most rigid brace you can get. You have to get that one custom-fitted. None of 'em really helped, especially the elastic ones, they don't really keep you from rolling your ankle, a good boot is better ankle support. And for me anyway they just made it harder to get a good tight fit with the boot. If she can tolerate ibuprofen I'd recommend a prescription strength dose of 800 mg. twice a day, that was the best thing for my ankle (but I used 1,000). That and some Voltaren gel, rubbed on the ankle. Generic name is diclofenac.

Did cardio yesterday in the gym, and lower body/core today. Tough workout today, our middle son and his GF are visiting from Australia and we hosted a BBQ for them and 15 of their friends at the house, smoked some baby back ribs and drank way too much beer, I was dragging but felt good by the end of it.

Going on a tune-up hike next weekend, to the hunting grouns at around 11K. Taking a buddy from work, he's never been there so I'm going to show him around. Should be a good time.

just got back from a quick overnighter with Tiny E into an alpine lake- 10 miles round trip, ~ 2000' of gain up to the lake; sadly forgot my phone in my truck and too late in discovering I did

snapped this this morning when we got back to the truck

Walked 5 miles

No way she'll wear boots. She's into zero-drop trail runners. I'm thinking the best I can hope for is a good lightweight elastic brace, if such exists, coupled with the knowledge of how to tape an ankle, which presumably can be gleaned from YouTube. Glad my kid will be there- she's a physical specimen, could carry Cyn off the mountain if it came to it.