Back With a Capital Vengence!

Wheels text me "Wanna run to Dog Lake" this afternoon to which I laughed hysterically since I could barely get up from the couch. "What time?" seemed like the only appropriate reply and it was lovely! Only a few days before the road to upper Millcreek closes so I wanted to get up there at least one more time. 

The final dog days of fall! #millcreekcanyon #bigwatertrail #runmehappy

A photo posted by Amiee Maxwell (@amieemaxwell) on Oct 25, 2015 at 6:18pm PDT

AM: Hour walk.

PM: Hour walk. Yoga.

PM: Hour walk.

Sunrise run with the Rooster in Upper Milcreek. Most gorgeous cotton candy sunrise and frosty leaves - 27 degrees at the start felt soooo good. Feel pretty good from the race last weekend, just a little creaky but still better than I felt last week.

I've always wanted to run to Rudy's Flat from City Creek and ughhh I still didn't get there. I checked the weather before I left and there was ZERO percent chance of precipitation. I followed the City Creek ridge and got to Dude Peak and then the temperature dropped, the wind picked up, and these ominous black clouds came out of nowhere.

Running down from Dude it started to snow and I couldn't really find a trail and it turned into a horrible buchwhack bonanza. I got cold fast and I should have just turned around and went back the way I came since I had no idea how long it would take to get to Rudy's. I dropped down from the ridge because it was soooo cold and windy up there and then I totally lost any semblance of a trail. This may actually be the most freaked out I've ever been in the outdoors! I had on shorts and a t-shirt and a light windbreaker and it was whiteout condiitons.

I sent an SOS text message to Fritz who was picking me up at Mueller Park and told him if he doesn't hear from me in 30 minutes be worried. I took the first trail I could find that headed off the mountain, which ended up being the North Canyon Trail and dumped me out in some random neighborhood in Bountiful and then Fritz nicely rescued me.

And this is why I love trail running! And now I still need to get to Rudy's grrrrr!

 

View from Dude! Hope I can find Bountiful before the sky lets loose. #dudepeak

A photo posted by Amiee Maxwell (@amieemaxwell) on Oct 30, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT

Roo and I ran the Join the Voices Run at Liberty Park to raise money for brain cancer research. We started the first mile out strong, but then lost about 30 seconds for a poop stop. We had another stop the second mile plus a major leash trippage event. Roo must have been bored come the 3rd mile and decided to play tug-o-war with the leash and I had to fight/drag him for the last half mile.

Splits were 7:40, 7:32, 8:21, 6:56.

Roo's not invited to anymore 5Ks.