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Location:

Ogden,UT,

Member Since:

Nov 21, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Finished my first 100 miler in '10, the Bear 100 in 26:05. 

55K 5:13

50 mile 7:47

Big Horn 100 Mile 24:54

 Squaw Peak 50:

2009: 13:48 (140th OA)

2010: 11:06 (26th OA)

2011: 10:01 (7th OA)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

2012 schedule:

Red Hot 50K+  (5:23)

Buffalo Run 50 mile (7:47, 1st AG, 7th OA)

R2R2R

Squaw Peak 50 mile (11:40)

Big Horn 100 Mile (DNS)

Loco

Bear 100

Chimera 100

Zion Travers (Done)

Long-Term Running Goals:

God created skis and surfboards to keep the truly gifted from ruling the world.

I've finally let go of my preconceived notions of what it's supposed to feel like to run. - Geoff Roes

 

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree; I'd spend six of them sharpening the axe." Abe Lincoln

 

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Arrrh! long, tough work day. The kind that makes you wonder if doing your own thing is really worth it! Rolled in the door at 7:45 PM, needed a run badly, the family was just sitting down to dinner, my awsome wife basically pushed me out the door, saying get out and run, we are fine! I'm soo blessed to have such a supportive family.

Getting dark, didn't take a light, tired already.  Why not punch out the front side of Indian trail to the shack as fast as possible.  Put the peddle down and churned hard up the hill in the fading light.  3.3 miles, 1350 vertical in just under 30 minutes. I havent pushed that hard in a while. 

I was still feeling wound up from work as I headed back down.  I passed through the backside of Warm Water canyon in the dark with no light, there are more than a few places that you wouldn't want to blow it back there, think BIG drops with narrow trail.  As I came onto the East slope, I was suprised that I could see my shadow on the hillside, I turned around to see a huge full moon coming up over mt. allen!  Funny 'cause at that same moment one of my favortie running songs came on my player.  I stood right there and said thank you to the Universe.  All the work stuff went away right then. 

Total run 6.6 miles   

Follow the link to see why Cold Play Viva la vida is a favorite: (may have already seen this)

www.vimeo.com/4600647

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No run today.  Sometimes being 100% in the day means staying home and helping with the pinewood derby car. Legs pretty fatigued from yesterday, another nutty long work day, gotta get a big one on the books tomorrow.

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Good, tough mid week run. 27th to Malan's (felt easy today) to Indian (over the top, past the shack and 1/2 way down to Ogden Canyon) Back to 27th.  Ran 100%. stopped for a few minutes to scope a new connector trail that needs to happen between Cold Water Overlook and the Mill Fork of Indian trail. (would make for a killer Mt Ogden loop from Ogden)  14 miles, 4100 vert.   

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Same route today as last Saturday only this week I did it backwards, starting at 27th street to Malan's Peak then Indian Trail over to the Ogden Canyon TH and back.  I also added a little more BST this week. (Note to myself: when the weather is bad, just get out the door, once your moving you dont notice it)

The reverse loop is either much tougher or I was way off today.  I actually ran faster this week, but suffered bad maintianing a run back up the climb out of Ogden Canyon.  Weather was off and on, mostly snow.  It was snowing hard as I was running over Indain Trail and there was 2-3" inches of fresh snow on the trail 1/2 way up Malan's.  I had to break trail on Malan's even though I got out late, around 10:45. Suprising no one had been up there, and I didn't see anyone on the up or back, which is odd, even when I run up there in the dark I almost always see a couple of people.  Beautiful up there today though, running through the fog and snow.  The great thing about the trails around here is they are rocky enough that even after a good soaking like today there is almost no mud. 

Malan's felt good, I always wonder as I start up that how it will go. Like a rock climb or boulder problem that you have dialed, but it's right near your limit, so you always wonder if you will pull it off.  Churned up it steady today though, kept the heart rate low and cruised to the top in 38:.40 Sick of the slushy snow mess through the top though 1/2 mile or so, it needs to melt out, please!  Everytime I run through there I have been sliding out and tweaking my lower back a little, I'm so dense though I forget until I get there and do it again, then I think "oh ya, that's why my back hurts" Dumb!

Feel so lucky to be able to get out and cruise over so much awesome terain in a relativly short period of time. Gotta love trail running, so minimalist, just me a gel in my pocket, a little water, shorts, shoes and a long sleeve shirt.  People I did see out today were in full winter gear carrying good size day packs.  Like I have said before, a year ago, one of these segments would have been my tough run for the week.  At the end of my run today I was coming up a short but steep little section on the BST, a section that, a few years and 50 lbs ago, when I finally decided to get back in shape, I always had to walk even though I was only 1/2 mile into what was then a tough 2.5 mile jog. Today I made the extra effort to really punch through that section hard, at mile 15.5 with over 5000 vert on my legs, just to remind myself how far I have come.   

Overall run, 16.25 miles, 5490 vert, 3:28.  got really powered down at the end of the last climb, hung on and maintained a run through 100% of the 16.25 miles.  It was so foggy on Malan's I didn't even take the usual sight seeing stop. 

Not alot of miles this week but managed about 11,500 vertical. 21,000+ for two weeks.  next week I'm backing off the climbing a little and trying to get in more distance.

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