AM - Left the house at 7:00 with a friend, destination wind cave trail in Usery Park. It was around 45 degrees at the start. Took 37.18 to go 1.6 miles and 800 foot elevation gain up to the cave. Spent about 10 minutes resting and watching the ground squirrels which are always there. No bees this time with the cool weather. Decided to check out the trail past the "enter at your own risk" sign. It was a lot further than I thought We saw a hummingbird on our way up to the ridge where we could the goldfields to the east. We also had a good view of the pass that pass mountain trail passes through. Including the rest at wind cave it took us 43:54 to make it up to the ridge and back down to the cave. I don't have any data for the distance, but the guess is about 1/3 mile up and another 200 foot elevation gain. Took another 35:17 to get to the car. for a total time of 1:57.29, 3.85 miles and 1000 foot elevation gain. The Mexican Gold Poppies were starting to bloom. I was hoping it would be warm enough for them to open up on the way back down, but it was still too cool.
I plan on going to YC's Mongolian restaurant for lunch. Hopefully I can get a short run in this evening.
PM - Ran 1.92 in 22.48 AHR 152, 74% of max, HR Range 148-163, 17:36 in zone, peak 165, cal 516 based on 232 lbs. 11.53 pace.
This was the first time since high school I have ever ran over a mile without stopping. I know I ran the mile in high school as part of PE, but I don't remember whether I ever did it without walking. I was never the poor soul who walked almost the entire way and did it in like 15 minutes, but I doubt I ever did it without taking some walk break, if just because I didn't care that much about it. Today I made it almost to the 1.5 mile mark when my hr monitor told me to walk. I only took two walks and they both were around 30 seconds. This was after my fairly rigorous hike in the morning. Up until this point I have been making progress, but in pretty small increments. Today was a pretty big jump. I did get a headache during the run, which I attribute to only eating a muffin for breakfast and a trail bar and dried peaches at the top of the mountain, and then a huge lunch, but nothing for dinner and then ran around 9PM.
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