Well, I wish my moderate effort on Green mountain was faster than it is, but oh well. It is what it is. It takes time and consistency to improve...so fortunately A) I have all the time in the world, and B) I really enjoy running, so its not hard to get out every day and be consistent. I guess on a positive take, I have improved my fitness a lot from where I was in the spring of this year. Today I ran Gregory to Greenman to the top and my trailhead to summit time was 46:58. That was a steady, pretty comfortable pace. Never pushing my HR until the final 200 yards. Just didn't feel like pushing into a painful state at all this morning. The first time I ever ran Green mountain in March of this year I did the same route and it took me something around 55 minutes and I was pretty much killing myself to do that. And my legs were fried afterward. Today felt easy and I know I could push the pace a lot harder and shave at least a few minutes off that time if I were feeling mentally into that on a given day. I meant to meet up with with Jason S. this morning for the run, but I showed up 5 min. late and caused confusion causing us to miss each other. But had we connected I imagine I would have pushed it harder to try to hang onto him (for at least 2-3 minutes I guess before he disappeared into the forest.) We got to Chataqua after our runs at about the same time and I learned that he ran it in 39 something this morning, the same route. I told him I thought I did it in between 44-45, but I was calculating the splits wrong apparently. Oh well...it was a solid run and my legs and body felt really good the whole time. I think that was the most easy feeling and enjoyable time I have run up Green mountain ever so far. I ran every step, which hasn't happened for a while, because normally I push myself too much early on and feel zapped near the top. This time I paced it evenly and felt great the whole way. The trail is bone dry still until the last couple switchbacks that are just slightly snow/ice packed. Wonder if we're ever going to have an actual winter this year on Green Mountain? 8 miles on the morning - 1:31:44 - 11:28 pace avg - 2600' vertical - HR: 144 avg | 