Vacation Week in Utah - all the adventures!

Family vacay in Utah, flew out there on Friday and returned the following Sunday, so 10 days of adventures!

Saturday

Race Report - Tushars Mountain Runs half marathon

14.8 miles, 3,900 ft of elevation gain at 10-11,000ft altitude 

4hrs 45mins 

Sunday

2 mile recovery run + 1 mi petroglyph hike

Spent some time with the little dude today while Scott did some mountain biking. First we did a couple of sunrise miles on the nearby bike path before checking out of the train car.

Train car village

💙

We also went to the Fremont Indian State Park and hiked around their paths to see petroglyphs. They were really cool!

Monday

1 mile run + 25 mi e-bike ride on Antelope Island

Explored Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake for the morning, including a super fun e-bike ride. It was "pedal-assist" but man, those things went 30 mph without much effort at all! After we turned in the bikes, I did a quick mile up a trail just to get in the daily run before we left the island park.

Running trail... I ran up that hill.

Tuesday

6.28 mi @ 10:24/mi

Found a park and greenway near the hotel in Salt Lake City where I planned to do my 10k Tuesday run. Got started, but then little over a mile out I came upon a construction barrier saying the trail ahead was closed. Oh well! Turned around, made up a route, and then ended up doing loops and a few out-and-back sections to finish out the miles. 

Wednesday

17 mi UTV tour + 3 mi afternoon run

OK, the UTV tour might not count as exercise but it was so fun I had to include it and of course recorded it on Strava. 😂 It was 2 hours winding our way through the Wasatch mountains in this awesome vehicle.

In the afternoon I got in a short 3 miles around the resort in Park City. This place sits at about 8,000ft and I could tell!

Ski slopes in the summer!

Thursday

3.92 mile run

There's a big hill/mountain behind our resort hotel, and I decided I'd run up it at sunrise. Really amazing views and oh the 48F temps at the start were absolutely fabulous.

Also did some rafting in the afternoon, but since we didn't end up actually paddling any (the guide did it all) I didn't bother tracking it.

Friday

3.11 mi @ 10:35/mi

Nice early morning sunrise miles on the greenway near our final hotel in Park City. Again, cool morning temps were perfect!

17 miles of downhill mountain biking

Rode ski lifts up, biked down. Super D did amazing, I turned into a bit of a chicken after a few gentle tumbles over on the trail. Still, fun experience and nice day out on the mountains!

Saturday

Race Report - Park City Trail Series half marathon

13.6 mi, 2h 21m, 1,300 ft climbing

Sunday

1.2 mi @ 9:54/mi

Neighborhood loop after we returned home. 

And that rounds out an adventure-ful week in Utah! So much fun!!