Twenty Years Ago Today!

Happy Anniversary My Love - 20 Years!!!!

"Pre" - Steve

"Pre" - Kathleen

Getting Closer - Steve and Kathleen at the Royal Gorge, Colorado - 1987 -
digging that wild hair on both those kids, eh?

A Definite Item - Late Fall 1987

December 31, 1988
What a way to celebrate New Year's Eve - The day I married my best friend and the love of my life. Kathleen has brought more to my life than I could have ever imagined and every day I find something new to love about her - twenty years later!! It does not get any better!

Hard to imagine we were only in our early twenties - mere babes.

From day one, I had that "feeling" that she was the one. I still feel it today - thanks Kathleen and I can't wait to see what the next 20 years brings our way!!!!

Happy Trails and Happy New Year everyone and thanks for sharing a trip down memory lane!

Steve

Morning run at Ute Valley Park

Took a snapshot when we were getting ready to run this morning - this was from 8 o'clock. These are our favorite weather spots we watch on Weather Channel. Of course, we started at 8:30 so it was up to 9 when we left and we were treated to some beautiful sunny skies! We got a treat this morning and were able to run with our friend C during some of her off-season recovery time. We have been friends with her and her husband, P, for years. She is one of our local elite runners and a mother of 4 - WOW!!! :-)

The girls running on the top of the bluff.

A "chilly" group photo at the finish (of course, Kathleen forgot to take her "spy" mask down for the photo :-0 ). We had a great time running today and the sunshine helped out a lot with the cool start. Including our to-and-from home, we ended up with a nice 7.25 miler - plenty for us after two long-ish runs on the previous days. Definitely Happy Trails at Ute Valley on a beautiful morning and we enjoyed the company!

Red Rock Canyon/Intemann Trail Combo

It was mid-30's (yahooo!), mostly gray skies and spitting some snow flakes when we headed over to Red Rock Canyon for a quick jaunt this morning.
To our great delight, the sun ended up gracing us with its presence for much of our run today. It is wonderful being able to wear shorts and a skirt the end of December!
We did a loop-de-loop through Red Rocks and caught the connector trail over to the Intemann Trail. There are virtually endless route possibilities in this area. I would guess an epic 50 mile loop would be quite easy to piece together - too bad our legs and lungs can't handle that type of exploration! That's ok - we'll just do it piece by piece, 10 miles here, 15 there and eventually sample it all.
Steve winding through the woods on Intemann. The sun was hiding at this point and the wind had whipped up pretty good making the temp feel a bit more brisk than when we started.
We never tire of our local scenery. We are SO lucky to live here! So much to see and sample so close to home.

Back in Red Rocks, heading down into a narrow little canyon.

The sun is back out, smiling on us!

The last little push out before a nice descent back to the truck and 10 fun miles in our legs. We both have this long Christmas weekend off from work and are loving it! We will be getting in some good outdoor exposure and fun quality family time. Good times!