15 miles in 2:00:25, 8:02/mi, HR 153.
Good solid uphill outbound climb into the state forest lands for 7.5 miles. Elevation gain about 1150' overall with some rolling ups and downs intermixed. The last bit to the turnaround point was pretty steep but everything else wasn't too bad. Return was a nice downhill where I could stretch out a bit. So I bought a 405 yesterday at REI in Seattle (completely fixated, I bounced from Ft. Lewis to Tacoma REI to Seattle finally before I found one). So today was my first run with it. Acted pretty good until just after the 13 mile mark when it decided to freeze, wouldn't let me navigate using the bezel, didn't show any data, and just plain wouldn't respond, other than allowing me to use the push buttons to pause/start the time and to trigger a lap. Got it back home and managed to get it to sync using the USB power cable (not the wireless) and now it seems to have reset itself. This doesn't bode well. Hopefully this glitch was random and temporary. Tired from being up late last night. Every 4th of July Dianna goes out to the barn to watch the horses and make sure nothing happens with the fireworks going off in the surrounding areas. Since she accompanied me on my 405 quest today, I went with her last night. Now she's told me previously about the quantity of fireworks that get set off in the area, but I had no idea. For about 90 minutes, I felt like I was in the final bridge scene from Saving Private Ryan....I don't know how the horses managed to stay as calm as they did. Only a couple of the more hotheaded ones got a bit worked up, but fortunately the old "feed them" trick worked long enough to get thru the worst of it. By the time we got back home it was after midnight and I woke up feeling pretty tired this morning. Adrenaline 8 - 301.44 miles. | 