As is our wont, we skeddadled out of SLC and went to Moab for the long Labor Day holiday weekend, rolling into an unexpectedly quiet Main Street a little after 7 p.m. Later, when we asked some friends in hospitality if things were slow, they said no, hotels were pretty well booked; I dunno, it sure seemed quiet. And that's okay.
We got really lucky with the weather for the first two days especially. A cold front rolled in and it was in the 70s (!!!!!!!) on Friday. Delightful! While H did a three mile trail run that morning, A and M did a 3.5 mile hike on Pipe Dream. It was quiet out there too: we saw one dude on a MTB with his dog. Late morning, A and H got on their road bikes for a ride on the bike path. A did 21 miles (it had been about a month since I'd been on the bike and I could feel that fact in my sit bones) while H stretched a little further to make it 24.
On Saturday, H had planned to do a long run and strung together 13.1 on Pipe Dream, up to Hidden Valley, through Hidden Valley and over the pass a little ways towards the Moab Rim trail. He ended up with just barely under 2,000 feet of elevation gain too, and finished in 2:46:47, so it was not an insignificant run.
While he was doing all that, Milton and A went to Millcreek. We went a little longer than we usually do (5.7 miles) and found ourselves a preying mantis.
Amazingly, H had not done quite enough by late Saturday morning. We decided to take advantage of the still fairly cool temperatures (slightly warmer than Friday but it still did not get out of the 80s) and did a road ride. This time he "just" did 21 miles. That's plenty of miles for one day.
Except that we did walk to Woody's and back for cocktails and that's another 1.75 miles roundtrip. Not that we're weirdos who count everything.
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