Day 9 & 10 - Ketchum, ID

Day 9 & 10

May, 30^th and 31^st, 2012

Ketchum, ID to Ketchum ID

No driving today. But we did get some solid mileage in. Hmmmmm how does that work?!? You'll find out.

Over the past two days, we have been hanging at the Greyhawk condo checking out the scenery around us via bikes, running, and walking. Let the triathlon training begin!

Bob has a few sweet mountain bikes at his house so we called Wanda, a local Ketchumian, and she got us all set up with the bikes. Accessing the bikes meant we also got a tour of Bob’s entire house. Wow. Speechless. That place is so well designed and every corner of the house is perfectly decorated. It is the ideal ski lodge/summer hangout.

Here is a picture of the basement. Just to tease you all.

Ok fine… one more pic – this is Kyle hanging out in the backyard.

But the rest of the house you’ll just have to use your imagination.
Ok fine… we’ll show you a pic of the freezer.

Wanda showed us this and I could not help but take a picture this because Graeters (a brand of ice cream made in Ohio introduced to us by the lovely Caitlin Allen) is easily the best ice cream I’ve ever had. It has chocolate chucks swirled throughout all the flavors. Since Ali’s biggest weakness is ice cream, this drawer was a tempting trip to sweet tooth heaven. For all the Graeters fans out there (Caitlin, Hayley, Katie and Luke – I’m talking to you) check out all the different flavors!!!!!! Worth zooming in.

We enjoyed a quick toss of the frizbee at the cleared out ski lodge next to the Village at Greyhawk.  Nice grass in the front there. Nice day too.  The toss?  A lil short.

BIKING

We started with just a short 2.5 mile ride back to the condo so we could do some Google satellite map investigating to check out the best bike routes.

Between Hailey, Ketchum and Sun Valley (three neighboring towns) there is a great bike path network. So we hopped on that for a solid 16.7 mile bike ride. Don’t worry Momma Farr and Momma McCarty – we wore helmets the whole time! And only rudely dinged our bells at one or two slowpokes.  But hey, that's what the bells are there for!

Then the rest of the night was split between cooking and watching back to back Harry Potters. Ali’s getting her necessary dose of Harry Potter. Hopefully we’ll be able to finish all 8 by the time this road trip ends.

RUNNING… and walking too

Day 2 of tri training. Workout of choice – running.

Kyle suggested a light 10 mile run. WHAT!??!?! Kyle’s idea. Yes. That’s how it went down. Not only was it Kyle’s idea but he kicked Ali’s butt. She had to tap out at mile 8 to take a break. We then walked it out for the last mile. The true test will be who is the most sore tomorrow...

 
Kyle trying to hitchhike his way back to the house.
His calves aren't working properly at this point. Post 10 miles.

A few pics we snagged while on our running tour of Ketchum.

Japanese cherry blossoms like in DC.  Only this time they are white.

 A view.

 Cool lookin house.  Could it be featured in Dwell?
Ask Poppa Farr. I'm sure he could tell you - Yes. The April, 2002 edition, pg. 29.

Pretty close to the ski slopes. Kyle thought about climbing all the way up there to have a snowball fight. But his calves were too tired. Bummer dude.

UFO spotted! 

It vanished as quick as the wind....if only we could've gotten closer...

I guess these things are pretty regular out in Idaho...

After an epic lunch and shower we then went on a casual (aka turn off training mode ALI!) bike ride into town. Our goals included 3:

1. Find a new oven mitt to replace the one Ali… toasted. Sorry! We promise we’ll replace it. 
2. Find a post office to send out a few postcards to our biggest blog followers (whats up parents). Y’all can look forward to some high quality South Dakota cards.  
3. Find mustard. A lot of mustard. Kyle’s a big mustard fan. Ali didn’t eat mustard until about 48 hours ago.

Bob left us this amazing sweet and spicy mustard that is made locally in Sun Valley. It recently won second place in the worldwide mustard taste testing contest. No joke. Google it.

Ye Olde Sun Valley Mustard.
 Appropriate antique finish.  Instagram is totally hipster.

 This stuff is the real deal. So we bought quite a bit of it….

Kyle’s considering sharing with his family. If they’re lucky.

Bike ride back

Kyle represents the Warner Formal he went to.....oh wait....he doesn't go to Davidson, but thanks for the shirt Rachel!

BIG MOOSE raises his leg and lets out a relieving.....!! Watch out Kyle.

We passed PK's store - the main ski and sports shop in Ketchum!

At least we think so; PK what's goin on?! We thought you were from Ghana...

TOMORROW – On the road again!

We are off to Revo, NV to visit the famous Sam Arnow. We were planning on visiting Sarnow in San Francisco (where he is doing a summer internship), but since he does not get there until the night of the 2^nd, Sar-dood invited us to come hang in Reno.

Can’t wait to see that fool. Ali can’t wait to rekindle memories of her first and only previous trip to Reno – club volleyball nationals in 7^th grade. Imagine 1000+ middle school girls running around a town in spandex. It was madness!!!! 

We made enough left overs for car snacks on snacks on snacks. So sorry Subway we probably won’t be seeing you tomorrow.

Also – we are definitely gonna break 4000 for our total mileage. That’s a lotta miles. 

Mileage stats:

Biking: 24.2 miles

Running: 13

Total Mileage: 37.2

All on a half gallon of Orange Juice and a half gallon of Limeade. (Thanks Bob!)

Average MPG: 37.2. Not too bad for a cleaning burning juice engine.