Trail Run - Providence Quarry to Leatham Hollow Round 2 - It was time to take down the Bear 100 course that I marked last week. I was planning on doing it tomorrow, but the weather tomorrow scared me. I don't have time later in the week to do it so today was the day. They are predicting snow and I do not want to run up to 8600+ feet in the snow. Whine, Whine.... I was able to trick Jon into joining me this time around. I had my wife drop us off at the Providence Quarry and told her to pick us up in 2 hours at Leatham Hollow. Things went much faster this time. My calf was feeling great and I have fully recovered from the marathon. Our first 2 miles were 20 min/mile pace this time. Sad that that pace was faster than before, but it is pretty steep. The de-marking went faster too. Especially since about a third of the marks were gone or mostly gone. I say mostly gone since the neighborhood cows have been busy chewing on plastic. Things went really well until it got dark. We hit the single track going down the hollow and the sun was long gone. I pulled out my headlamp, but since Jon didn't bring one, things were interesting. We went from 7 min/mile pace and progressively got slower until we stumbled out to the car at 11 min mile pace. Overall, it took 2 hours and 18 mins for the 12 mile run. (11:33 pace) Not bad counting the elevation change and stopping to grab markings every little bit. Unfortunately, Jon had a meeting to be at at 8:30 and we arrived home at 8:28. Yep, he was late.
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