Imogene Pass Run

This year my big athletic goal was to do Imogene Pass run. It's a 17 mile run from Ouray to Telluride over a 13,100 foot pass. The plan was to stay in Telluride a night after the run and hang out in Telluride and go hiking. It was a blast! A friend had told me that a good time goal for the run would be 4hours 15 minutes. When I didn't get in the training I wanted (longest run of 15 miles a few times) I figured it would take between 4:15 and 4:30. Having never done this run before I had built it up in my mind to be this impossible feat. That tatctic ended up working really well for me in that it was not as hard as I thought and I ended up finishing in 3:52 - I was very happy. The best part about it was that I had been praying with my prayer partner about this run for several months leading up to it. My knees will usually give me problems on distances over 12 miles. I knew that with God and prayer all things are possible but it was ridiculous- on the way down the mountain (miles 11-17) I just kept feeling better and better - it was a miracle!

This was taken right after I started heading down from the summit. I had told my self to walk this section since it's where most of the falls occur. I started jogging for the picture but you can see my legs aren't going very fast :)

Here's the town of telluride and the condo we stayed at (below)

This is probably the smallest house in all of Telluride (in the middle of the huge 3 story houses) and I joked with Pete that we might actually be able to affrod this one :)

We took Josiah on the Gondola and he loved it - he kept talking about "ride it".

He only wanted Papa to hold him - he might have been a little scared.

The next day we diecided to do a hike with Gab and her mom (who is visiting from Czech) to Bear Creek Waterfall.

I bet this sucker really gets roaring in the Spring - everyone said that is was actually big for this time of year.


So what was Josiah's favorite part of the trip you ask?.....

The heavy machinery of course!

We spent somtime walking downtown and Pete got sick of all the pictures I was taking so here are just a few of them smelling the flowers.

On the drive home I spotted this cool old mine that I thought would be fun to photograph...Pete was excited because he got to explore the inside of the mine while J and I stayed outside.

This face was so cute I had to make it into an Andy Warhol moment

Josiah was so sweet he kept picking flowers for me and putting them on my knee

or should I say petals?

Lake Days

Some friends of ours, Jack and Anand live out in Falls Creek Ranch, a beautiful community of homes out past the National Forest with its own lake. Her son, Emmett is just 5 months older than Josiah and we love to get them together.

Josiah isn't crazy about going in the water yet but he loves boats. There is a collection of community kayaks and life vests available for use out at the Lake and Josiah loves to have me paddle around with him or just stand on the shore and look at the boats. Here are some pics from a recent trip out to the Lake.

Here's Emmett and his dad Jack getting ready to paddle out

J and his buddy Ava who is just 5 weeks younger than he.

Ava and her mom Christine

Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of us when we went out on the lake but here's J in the reeds walking over to look at a beached dingy.

J closely studying the boat

Lots of fun for mom and J!