Today's run was, in a word, wild.
I skied at Snowbird earlier in the day. I knew it was going to be snowing hard up the canyon, so I left my car at the park n ride and bummed a ride up with a couple folks. Turns out the guy that was driving was a pro skier, so I spent the day riding with him, which was a blast, as he skis a lot harder than most of the people I usually ride with. Anyway, I was getting a ride back down to my car when I noticed that I had lost my keyring. House/car/lab keys all gone. I crashed once and I guess my pocket had become unzipped, so they got buried somewhere in powder way up on the mountain. Anyway, they gave me a ride back to my apartment and then I ran back from the avenues to Little Cottonwood Canyon. Of course, right when I got home, it started snowing really hard. I mapped the route and figured out enough diagonal streets to get it down to 17 miles and almost entirely avoid Wasatch (until the last 1.25 miles).
Anyway, the conditions were super super gnarly. I started out at high 7s pace, but as more and more snow fell and I started to get into the uphill second half, my pace got slower and slower. Route was my place to South Temple to 9th East to 21st South to Highland to 6200 South to 2300 East to Bengal to Danish to Wasatch/LCC road to the park n ride. My pace going up the icy sidewalk on 2300 East from Fort Union to 6200 was literally 12:00 flat. I was just barely able to run at all with the sidewalk as it was (deep snow with ice on the bottom). Wasatch/LCC Road was nearly otherworldly. The snow was coming down insanely hard and the road was a ridiculous mess. Any time a car was anywhere close, I walked 10 feet off the side of the road into very deep powder to avoid getting hit. I was planning on 20 tonight, but this took 2:21, which is longer than it would have taken me to do 20 on a treadmill, so I'm not going to complain.
Driving home from the bottom of LCC to the Aves took a full hour. At times, I was reduced to 15mph on I-215. Absolutely crazy!
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