Great run tonight! Malan's PR for both the up and the round trip! I haven't run this thing hard since early last fall, and, guessing most of the winter snow would be off the trail, why not give it a punch and see wha these tired legs got? From the trail head to the crossing on Taylor Creek bridge where the real climb begins I was 9:50, a good time for me here is 11:00-12:00. I kept the pedal down up the ridiculous steep section to the overlook and hit that point at 15:50! (uusal push it time to here is around 19:00) I knew I was on serious PR pace. Legs were starting to feel a little heavy, but were holding up for as beat up as I have felt latlely. Heart rate and breathing felt good. From the lookout through the next switchback it doesn't let up at all and gets to the ridiculous steep right toward the end, climbing 1200 ft in a mile through here. This is where it got nasty, first 2 inches of slush, then three, then top of ankle deep sections that were very slick, then solid snow/slush 4-6 inches deep and an inch of mud under it all. This slowed me down a little and took more energy to plow through. I topped out in 34:40, spent a few on top trying to take in the view and tried to fly down, I bit it a couple of times in the deep snow/mud section but still managed to make the trail head with a 51:43 moving time. WhoooHOO! Not too long ago it took me 50 minutes to get to the top. I PR'ed but felt much better than the last time I went for it. Last fall I remeber sitting on top feeling like I was gonna pass out! and my run down wasn't fast at all. Feels great to see improvement.
Noticed this on a few blogs latley, so here is the Garmin junk! for the run
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/34473301 | 