It's a beautiful thing. Living at that base of the flatirons. I am pretty psyched about where we live now. Ran out my door step, about a 1/2 mile to where the dirt starts. Steve (an ultra runner who lives around the corner) met up with me for my inaugural Boulder run, along with his friend Ricardo and his dog. It was great running with Steve again, and meeting Ricardo. Steve is good company and someone to try to keep up with as he is definitely in better uphill running shape than me and has run up and down green lots of times. Snow was falling lightly, temp was about 30 degrees, felt great with long sleeves and gloves. It was fitting that the mayor of Green mountain breezed by us on his way down as we were on our way up bear canyon. Although he had some different looking shoes on than I would have expected. And in analyzing his tread the rest of the way up the mountain from his foot prints in the snow (the only foot prints on the trail that morning so far) I was almost convinced they were inov-8's he was running in. But I'm not so sure, and it seems unlikely that he would be running in inov8's...maybe I'll ask him on his blog and see if it was perhaps the new mystery 101's he's been talking about. But the tread was entirely different than the current 101's and very similar to inov8 tread. Maybe inov8 is making him an offer? I doubt he would be switching from NB at this point though...but you never know. It was snowing less on the peak than down lower, just a dusting of snow on the trails the whole way up really. 12 miles from my door to the top and back. 3000' elevation gain. 2:09 today. 11:01 pace. Taking it pretty easy the whole way, walking some of the really steep stuff. My calves were kind of feeling it most of the way up from the tempo run on Saturday finishing my biggest mileage week ever so far last week (52...yeah...not that big for some of you, but for me doing 45-50 lately is a marked improvement). | 