Geeze not a post all week...slacker. Actually things have still been too busy. Making this a weekly update more than a daily log lately. Rather than post for every day all, I'll sum up the week in this post. After last Saturday's run, my IT band was bugging a bit in my right knee (left knee was the one that bothered my in the fall/winter) At lest I though it was my IT band. Felt fine Sunday and Monday, but to be on the safe side I took the bike out of moth balls and went for a very enjoyable, but windy ride. 25 miles, 21.4 mph average. ART/ASTYM Monday night and things felt pretty good. Seems a tight quad was to blame, loosened that up and things feel pretty good. My runs through the week mostly hour to hour-and-half runs at an easy pace, with one quality push over Indian to the canyon and back. PR'ed to the shack from 27th, to the canyon and for the round trip. (1:48 from 27th)
Today's long run was a monster. Go fastie Jon did this one last week and I knew I had to give it a go. It was basically an add on to the quad sister, which I ran two weeks ago, a run I always want to call the triple sister because, while it's four hills, it's only three trail systems. Since I have stupid names in my head for parts of trails and for certain runs, And given the monster/sister theme and the fact that I saw a huge snake (no rattles) out there today, In my own little world, I am going to call the longer version Medusa, one of the three monster sisters from Greek Mythology. Near them their sisters three, the Gorgons, winged with snakes for hair - hated mortal men. Medusa is Malan's/Indian out and back/Hidden Valley/Malan's. A beautiful run of all steep, technical single track, pines, aspen, views, two water sources, close to town, and did I mention steep and relentless. No Forest Service sanctioned 3-5% grade trail on these. 22.5 miles, 9700 vert on the Garmin.
I felt great and ran the whole thing to the top of Hidden again. Felt much better going up Hidden Valley this time. I guess knowing the ridiculously steep sections aren't super long helped. Coming down from Hidden Valley, Malan's was still questionable, both for time and energy, but when I got back to Taylor Canyon still feeling good and with enough time to still make the kids k at the Ogden Marathon, I gave it a go. I was expecting it to be a walking, rest step slog, but actually felt o.k. and managed to run the whole thing in a slow but respectable 38 minutes from the first bridge, though running out of water and gel early on the climb turned the last bit into a death shuffle. AM: 22.4 miles, 9680 vet, 5:09. PM: Had to get out for a short one to put the day into 5 digits. Up Taylor to the Malan's turn off, pond on the way back for the dog. 2.5 miles
Day: 25 miles, 10,000ish vet Week: 60 miles, 15,300 vert.
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