The end to a "restful" week- St. Mary's Glacier

I've come to realize that the term "rest" is relative. Over summer break, rest was, well, nearly every day when I did a whole lot of nothing. Now, rest is when I don't have school, grad school, or homework to do. Needless to say, "rest" days look a lot different during the school year than over the summer.

Well, I was told to take it easy and "rest" for a week due to my little injury. I took rest to mean a small hike up a glacier. This was for two reasons: 1. I needed to partake in some type of movement because I thought I was gonna go crazy and 2. It is still really freakin' hot in Boulder and we needed some cooler air. Apparently, the term "air" is also relative in Colorado. In order to get this cooler "air", we needed to travel to 10,000 ft. where there really isn't much air at all.

This brief hike up to St. Mary's Glacier (a little ways west of Denver) turned out to be beautiful and also not so brief when we decided to hike all the way to the top of the glacier. We were really happy we decided to do this hike and my leg is now feeling better! It's not quite 100%, but it turned out to be a great excuse to skip a long run and indulge in some inspiring mountain vistas!

There she is.. St. Mary's Glacier!

Posing for a shot

Looking out from the glacier

Washing my hands in glacier water... contemplating making snow angels in August

John posing with the glacier

Nom Nom Nom... PBJ samitches

The view out from the glacier.. looking at 1 or 2 fourteeners (tackled one of those last summer ;-)) 

What a wonderful "rest" day that was. I was actually quite grateful for all of the cardio I have been doing because I pretty much kicked John's butt hauling up here at 10,000 ft. We headed up the glacier to the top, and then decided it best to begin the hike down considering the ominous clouds gathering around. All in all, the leg felt great and I think I am ready to start running again this week with some new inspiration!

I'll leave you with this trivia... it's gonna be a tough one:
In the last picture in this post, I mentioned in the caption that you are looking out at (at least one) Colorado fourteener. What fourteener could this be? John... you're NOT allowed to answer!

Have a happy week everyone!