14 miles of mostly singletrack trails with Chuck Konopa in ~2:15 (watch died with 2 miles to go). We took it easy and hiked all of the steep uphills, which there were a lot of. My place to his house to City Creek to Dude Peak Trail (.6 miles at a 40% average grade) to the ridgeline, most of the way up, down the 2nd to last offshoot, down into Bountiful, back through NSL to Bosho, up to the towers, down the front side gravel road, through the neighborhood, and back to my place through memory grove. My garmin won't connect to my computer anymore (actually, it won't even charge properly half the time), so I can't get its reading for altitude, but Chuck's altimeter put the peak of the run at 63xx' atop a massively rolling ridgeline, with a low point of 43xx' at the bottom of Memory Grove and another pretty big climb out of North Salt Lake to the towers, not to mention all sorts of other rolls and ups and downs elsewhere. Just counting point to point major climbs, it's high 3000s for vert, with all the rolls, it's got to be at least 4500'. Not bad for someone who is basically a road dude at this point. :) In any case, the pace was anywhere from 6:40 on a downhill mile to 16-ish on the mile that included the Dude Peak Climb, and actually that 16-ish mile was tough, while the 6:40 was conversational. Hah. I've hit 151 in the last 11 days and today was the first day in this training cycle that my legs just felt pretty tired (even after sleeping a ridiculous 12 hours last night), so I'm going to be very careful over the next few days.
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