No Top of Utah Marathon for me today. I was sad to not participate in the local marathon, but I still have no desire to run a road marathon, so I didn't. The weather was tricky today. It rained hard all night and was still at it at 6. I drove up to first dam and drove through a storm. Since it wasn't raining at the house, I hoped it would quickly pass. I decided to power nap for 15 mins and wait and see. To my joy, it stopped raining and I was able to dodge all the random rain showers for the whole run. Unfortunately, the trail I picked to run today was super overgrown. Overgrown + Lots of rain = Very Wet lower body. I ran on the river trail to Wind Caves trail and took the Birdeneau Trail up the mountain. Once I turned off the popular wind caves trail, I immediately got super wet. It got colder and colder the higher I got. I found myself in a cloud and felt like I was swimming in my shoes. I seriously thought I was running in a river, I was so wet. I wasn't really enjoying it anymore and was getting seriously cold, so instead of continuing up the ridge to Birdeneau Peak, I gave in and headed down into Green Canyon. I was seriously starting to fear for my safety with how cold I got. Once I hit the Green Canyon road I felt much better. Hmm, I am warm now so I guess I can keep running. I went up to the yurt and was having fun again. Luckily, I was out of time/mileage so didn't have to run up the overgrown upper green trail and get wet again. I headed back down the canyon and made it to the car before another rain squall hit the area. That was close! T- 3:51:30 (10:24) 4400' vert ** Weekly summary - Another big vert week for me. Not as many miles as my crazy last week, but lots of climbing. I have been having fun getting back to the trails this last month or so. No real mileage or training goals. Just having fun and running as much as possible. I am planning on running a 50K the first week of Nov (Antelope Island 50K/100K) but will likely not change my training at all for it. 66.25 miles - 14,850' Vert - 703 mins
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