Have a little faith

Starting the week off well, with an 11 mile run up and down Millcreek Canyon. The snow is solid on the road above the gate. Last year I was running to elbow fork, 1 1/2 miles above the gate on only small pockets of snow. There was black ice all over the road above Millcreek Inn, at 4 miles. This slowed me down a little, along with the head wind. Hands were cold. It must have been 25 degrees at the gate. Time was 1:32. Pretty typical for a cold morning run.

Black sheep workout at EHS.  Haven't been to this camp for nearly 3 months. Felt good, but took it easy. Straley called it the "revenge of the not so fast". Basically 8x400's, 3x300's, with 1 mile warm up.

The Monster! I was the only one in line at 5:30 to ride the ride to the top, 850'. Time was slow: 27 min to top, 53 total ~ 9 mpm.  Heading to Boise tonight, so won't make a run tomorrow.

I didn't really want to take two days off this week but work allowed no time to run, and it still doesn't. So I made this mornings run count. I went up the Monster, reaching 2.5 miles and 850' climb in 26 minutes, about average. Dropping down and back up the 1 mile to Neff's, with 250' climb in another 8 minutes. That was good. Then down 1.5 miles to Millcreek canyon, got a drink, and ran up to the snow gate. Except there was no snow. Last Monday there was 6" of packed snow. I wanted to run up the road and see where the snow line was but didn't have the time. I finished the run in 2:08. I'm guessing my total gain in elevation to be 2300'. It put some blood in my legs for sure. Though it wasn't necessarily the type of teraine of Ogden marathon next Saturday, I still had fun. And afterall, that's what it is all about.