I'll group two runs into one since they happened so close together. Left last night about 7:00 for a good hard long run. Up and over Indian Trail anb back. Forget how good this trail is, and its right out my door. Need to get up there more. Got dark on the climb out and had to turn the lights on coming back down onto the bench. Continued on for a nice night run up Malan's. Felt pretty good through most of the run, but was dragging a bit coming down Malan's. I always forget how much slower and more effort it takes to run downhill at night.
Got home about 10:30 and was in bed about 11:50. Up pretty early for a Ben Lomond run. Left the trailhead about 8:15. Temps this morning were really nice, but the sun felt hot for some reason climbing the first 4 miles or so. Kept a pretty tired run going up to the saddle, then walked/hiked to the peak. I was completely thrashed on the run back down. Dehydrated and really bonky, depite downing 40oz of water on the run. I know I didn't eat enough out there, but geeze, hammered! Prety drained all afternoon, even after a nap. Not sure what's up, but those were hard back to back runs. I haven't been running alot of miles, but have done a really long run every week and some hard runs most weeks for the last month and a half, so maybe just accumulated fatigue. One more week to keep the hammer down, then backing off for Bear.
Oh, looks like I'm pacing Phil Lowry from Brighton to the finish. Should be a blast as he is going for a good fast time I'm sure. Be nice to see how a veteren gets it done. With all the FRB'ers pacing the last 25, we should hold a pacer race. Like a dogsled race, see who can mush their runnner to the finish the fastest! HA!
Run 1: 15 miles, 5300 vert
Run 2: 15.5 miles 3800 vert
Total running in 12 hours 30.5, 9100 vert. I'm thrashed.
Week: 58 miles, 13,000 vert. | 