Trails!

Providence Canyon Trail Road - 

Trail was a sheet of ice so I headed up the dirt road instead.  Still almost fell over on ice a few times, but it was mostly runnable.  Stomach was upset the whole time even after spending some time in the bushes.  Came home and spent the next 6 hours back and forth from the bathroom.  Completely drained now, but feeling better.

T-1:13 (9:05) 1700' vert (144 ave HR)

Off to recover from losing my breakfast & lunch yesterday.  Felt fine today.

BST-Green Canyon Half Marathon - 

I need to patent this course.  It could be a cool race.  I would have to cap it at 100 runners or so to not overcrowd the singletrack but it would be a fun one.  Today I hit the outbound hard.  Pobably tinman tempo effort.  Tough to tell in the dark and with snow and mud on the course.  Coming back down was a more moderate pace.

T-1:50:40 (8:27) 154 ave hr 1800' vert (57 mins up, 53 down)

Off

Deer Fence 9 -  Scared a bunch of deer.  That's it.

T-1:19 (8:41) 1500' vert 150 ave HR

Bryce Canyon (Under the Rim + Rim Trail Linkup) - 30 miles

Awesome Awesome day/run.  My wife and I had a wonderful day without the kids (my awesome sister watched them for the weekend).  My wife spent the day traveling around taking pictures and I guess I did too.  I did it on foot and she did it driving.  Win/win.  I need to sift through about 2 thousand pictures and pick my favorites.  I will post a few at that point.  Awesome trail though.  It was more challenging than I thought.  Lots of snow/mud/sand/rocks/bushes to slow things down.

T-6:30 (counting 30 mins taking pics) (13:00) 5400' vert climb (6700' descent)

Route: Rainbow Point to Fairyland Point with an out and back to Whiteman TH for resupply.

Update: Here are my photos on FLICKR