Originally, I thought it was just going to be me and Sam, but it ended up that a group of six of us met at 5:45 and headed up to run the rail trail in Park City. We dropped beverages on the way at the Silver Summit junction (miles 5/13.5) and headed to the trail head in PC. As anyone who has run the rail trail can tell you, it's difficulty lies in the fact that you have a gradual, almost imperceptible loss of elevation on the way out, and then what seems like one long slow climb back to the finish on the way back. Our miles were generally in the 7:30-7:35 range. When a couple of us stopped for a drink at Silver Summit, Adam Wende powered on ahead, so he ended up getting 21.0 by adding a few extra minutes to his run. He's getting ready for TOU and he looks strong. He was telling me about how he has a spreadsheet for all of his runs since '97 and he displays the results as a circular graph showing how far around the world he has traveled if you add the miles end to end. It's something like 24,000 miles, and I think that's landed him somewhere in the middle of the ocean right at the moment. I finished my 19 in 2:31 and the last couple of miles were fairly strong and I felt decent during this run. Sam was also really strong; he's getting ready to run the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase this next weekend. We had no wind which can be deadly on that route, and the weather was mild. In the evening, Heather and I met over at Sam's and a group of us headed up to Albion Basin for a hike up to Catherine's Pass for a picnic dinner. We got up there around 8pm, and got to see the sunset and some amazing electrical storms in the distance. On our hike down in the dark, lit by our headlamps and a 3/4 moon, we heard coyotes wailing like mad and that was cool. A few minutes later, we came across a couple of moose that were about 50 yards or so off the trail from us. It was dark enough that you only knew they were there because of the way their eyes glow up when caught in the light of the headlamp. We were fine, but decided to give them a wide berth and we hiked up on to a ridge to avoid them. It was fun. | 