13 miles with Kevin, which involved some hiking and huffing and puffing up really hard trails. Started with a nice 4000' uphill on the Desolation Trail, which is outrageously overgrown and rocky right now, which Kevin really enjoyed. We followed that through all of Porter Fork, which is beautiful right now, but extremely technical and frequently un-runnable, which Kevin liked even more. He commented that it would be good for working his leg speed velocity. The plunge down Porter Fork was steep and overgrown, and Kevin thought it would be really useful specific training for when he runs a marathon that has over 20,000' of vertical descent. The last couple miles on Porter Fork Road and Mill Creek Road were nice, but Kevin's quads were beat up by that point, so he thought that it was extra fun. Overall, I would say that Kevin loved the outing and will be dying to get out on trails with me again in the future. Kevin had 12.75 on his Garmin, but it was exactly a quarter mile short of the official trail mileage on one section, so I'm calling it 13 in 2:42 (my time is 5 minutes shorter than his, as I was bombing the downhills to get ahead so I could sit down for a minute and rest my hip while waiting) At least for me, this run had nothing to do with pace and everything to do with time on feet. I pushed my hip for nearly 3 hours on super gnarly terrain and it was very close to totally fine. This is extraordinarily good news. I, of course, had some ibuprofen in my system, which undoubtedly helped, but I just got a prescription from Matt Poulsen for some more long term anti-inflammatories, so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to really start building back up here. Note to everyone on here: In all seriousness, don't run trails with me unless we've discussed what the trails consist of beforehand. I have literally zero common sense as to what most people consider to be a "good" or "enjoyable" trail.
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