Date Day

This morning, Toby and I dropped the girls off at the Shearers' house (who take our kids once a month so we can have a date day or night - love you guys!) and headed up to Eldora for some skate skiing.

Depending on your level of fitness, skate skiing is the opportunity to:

1) sport your CU/Eldora/Olympic Nordic ski team jacket and glide gracefully through the snow at lightening speed.
2) enjoy the beauty of snowy, evergreen-lined trails while getting a good work-out.
3) test your heart's ability to avoid cardiac arrest, even as it pounds so loudly that you can hear nothing else...except maybe the sound of your own desperate attempt to catch your breath.

Toby and I hovered somewhere between a 2 and a 3. Everyone else on the trail fell solidly into category 1. At this point, however, I am used to being humbled while exercising in Boulder. (My friend Marc wrote a great article a couple of years ago that captures this phenomenon, called The Gore-Tex Vortex.)

Lack of grace and speed aside, it was a great morning. I loved being outside and exercising in such a beautiful environment. We ended the morning with pulled barbecue and a "brew-ski" for Toby (a ski bearing beer samples).

All in all, a perfect Colorado date.