More from Alta!

It's be an awesome few days since the last post full of quality work, biking and running adventures, amazing places and fantastic food!

We've done four adventures since the last post and have already racked up almost 15 hours of OD training for the week!

On Tuesday we did a fantastic 40 mile road bike around the Teton Valley. Through Driggs and Victor and back. It was amazingly beautiful with the backdrop of the Tetons the entire trip!

Hot Air Balloons over Driggs

We then came back to the house for an amazing breakfast of eggs and Latkes and then walked the 100 yards to the Alta Library to work for several hours. We did miss our Senior Center crew but the convenience just couldn't be beat!

Wednesday we once again got up early to have an adventure before our work. We road 6.5miles up a dirt road to the trailhead for Teton Canyon where we swapped our helmets for hats and our shoes and started trail running.

WOW! Rachel and I have run on some amazingly beautiful trails but we've never seen one more beautiful! It was like the flowers were trying their best to impress us! It was especially poinent for us because it is my very first trail run since I injured myself in Jackson on the 4th of July. I haven't been able to run at all but I could on this run and I almost cried from the amazingness of being able to run AND the beauty all around us!

Wildflowers and canyon walls!

Rachel overlooking the valley we just ran up.

Gratuitous Selfie

After another amazing brunch featuring Rachel's signature omelettes we were back to work - IN THE HOUSE! The internet was fixed!!!!

Thursday we thought we'd head north to another trailhead, it looked to be just a few miles further of a ride so we didn't worry too much but we soon ran onto one private road after another until we basically had to go all the way to the highway and back up to get to the trailhead. We had also forgotten to pack food so when we finally got to the trailhead, after 1:45 of riding on dirt roads, we decided we'd better just head back or we would bonk hardcore! Although not as epic as the day before it was still an amazingly lovely 30 mile dirt ride and our newly repurposed cross bikes are rocking!!!!

So beautiful!

This morning (Friday) we were starting to get a little tired and we have a truly EPIC day planned for tomorrow so we just road up to Teton Canyon again and ran for about 45 minutes up a different trail and then came home for brunch and work. 

Only 15 minutes up the Trail!

We are planning a trip into Driggs this afternoon to have lunch with Nathan and to get food to make Sarah a birthday dinner!

Come back for tomorrows EPIC Adventure!