The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Dec 15, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs after age 40:

 

5k     15:15  Running of the Leopards.

8k      22:21  Alta Death Dash

10k   33:02    Des News

Half Marathon      1:10  Timp Half

Marathon        2:32    Ogden

First solo R2R2R Bass Trails Grand Canyon 

First R2R2R Grand Canyon Toroweap Overlook

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Not be fat all year

Long-Term Running Goals:

Smell the dirt, feel the mountain, taste the wind.

Personal:

 

"Our legs are tight, our feet are flying, and we are gliding over the roll of the land. The sun is up, the air is fresh, the stone is old, and we are free and at peace. The clock has stopped because another time has taken over." C. Bowden

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69.600.000.000.0069.60
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Nice day off.

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14.400.000.000.0014.40

Nice run after work along the Des Plaines River Trail Network, Chicago. Slow and easy run on soft singletrack. What a beautiful summer day.

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7.000.000.000.007.00

Spring Hollow trail. Mostly a run today working through all GPX file features on my Garmin Fortrex. Steep learning curve this week learning how to download topographical maps and trail way points into it. Garmin watches just can't cut it on the longer trails and getting 15 hoirs of battery life is a serious advantage too. I'm planning on some deeper Grand Canyon running this summer and need a much better antenna also.

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15.000.000.000.0015.00

Dropped kids off at school and headed up to the canyon to the rv for some mountain time. Just about finished sewing a new skirt for the kayak. Last Spring I swamped twice trying to run the lower river, mostly because I couldn't roll the kayak without water getting in. Also the fact that it was a first date with an "expert" woman kayaker who was utterly destroyed by the river and lost one of my kayaks when it was torn away by the river.. Couple that up with my fumbling in a kayak and it was quite an adventure. She never did go out with me again. I ran Gueneva up Spring Hollow in the morning for an easy 8 miles.

Late afternoon I headed back for the same trail. Best experience of the week. When I reached the trailhead there were two mountain bikers gearing up. One of them held his hand out for me to stop. He says, we are going for a Strava record up and down. If you don't mind, could you wait so we don't have to get around you passing on the way up? Sure. But in my heart I smiled. Anyone with a lick of time on steep singletrack knows that a trail runner will climb much faster than a biker, even fat and out of shape like me. I let them go for five minutes and ran right by them in a mile and a half. :-)

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Road run in Logan.

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Busy work day.

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19.200.000.000.0019.20

Long slow run today. Full day in Vegas so I took the opportunity to run a route I've been eyeing for a while flying in and out of Vegas. Crossed Moapa Indian Reservation from highway 167 through the Valley of Fire to Lake Mead. Sweet desert run, 101 degrees today. Didn't run on a single trail. I used GPX waypoint data for the first time. Had a nice chat with a ranger in the backcountry today too.

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69.600.000.000.0069.60
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