Like the canyon

Nice easy hour ride on the bike, then some much needed ART. Super tight and sore from the knee down, ouch!!

Wife was gone tonight so I packed up the boys and headed out on a long hike.  Been wanting to get my 3 yr old up to the waterfall in at the top of Waterfall Canyon.  He is fascinated with mini waterfalls in the creeks we hike by most nights so I thought the 200+ feet of gushing water would totally blow his mind.  It's a fairly long steep hike for 3 yr old legs so I packed all 40 pounds of him plus some water and snacks in the kid carrier, gave a waist pack to my 11 yr old with more water and headed to the 29th street trailhead. Shocked to find the lot totally full and cars parked on the street.  I think every church group in the valley was up there tonight.  Not one bit of an exaggeration, would estimate 400+ people on the trail and up at the falls.  It was alomst a solid line of people going up and down the canyon, crazy!!

We hiked up at a fast pace, passing tons of people.  Good amount of work hiking hard with a 40lbs monkey on my back.  A guy in some five fingers hiked with us and was good to chat with. He had just moved to the area, and couldn't  belive the people.  I told him it was not typical. 

My 3 yr old hiked/ran all the way back and had the time of his life.  All he has talked about since we got back is going back to the BIG waterfall!

Headed up to the trails below Snowbasin tonight.  A friend of mine has been running a new trail they put in off of the overlook trail that heads out to a ridge above Pineview and drops back down to Maples trail.  He usually starts at Snowbasin and runs the 8 mile loop.  I didn't want to drive all the way up so I started at Wheeler Canyon trail at Pineview reservior and ran up to Snowbasin to meet him.  We ran the to the top of the loop and up an unfinished spur trail that headed toward Salamander Peak.  We started the downhill and it went on forever, switchbacking back and forth at a super low grade, kinda rolling grade back down to the Maples trail.  The trail was freshly cut less than a year ago, so it was a littel rough here and there, but really smooth overall.  Very beautiful, all the way through. 

We hit Maples and I headed down toward Ice Box and Wheeler Canyon.  It was already after 9 PM, and it got dark quick with the cloud cover.  By the time I was half way down Ice Box I was wishing I had brought a light. 

By the time I got to the car I was in the deepest bonk of my life I think.  Don't now exactly what brought it on other than the run was too long for my recovery and I didn't bring enough water and no salt and it was really hot and super humid.  By the time I got home, I was shaking like I was hypothermic, head was spinning, heart rate and respiration high.  Not good.  I drank water, took a hot shower, put on a hoody and climbed in bed for a bit, nothing would stop the shivers. Finally I got up and downed a couple of S caps and some Ginerale and with in 20 minutes felt much better.  Really strainge, never experienced that before. 

Guessing the run was about 13 miles and 2500-3000 vert.  Overall Gorgeous, and I felt great for the first 9 to 10 miles. 

Easy 3 mile run, then a good hour long hike with my boys.

Easy 4-5 miles from Wheeler's.  Most runs this week were slow, short and easy, with the exception of my knuclehead long run tuesday.  The goal being to get the legs moving and keep the recovery going.  Next week I want to start a steady build up toward the Bear 100.  We'll see if the legs and mind feel ready to go by Monday.

Week: 1 hour ride, 26 miles or so on my feet.