4th Annual Steve Abraham Lincoln Pope Hooper 17.3 Trail Run.
I've missed out the last few years, but forced myself out of bed and made it over for the run. The morning started with me searching all over the house for my hydration belt. I had filled up two bottles last night and put them in the fridge and left my belt on the counter so I would be looking for hit, (turns out Jarren thought it would be fun to hide it under his bed, and see what my reaction would be when I got home) Anyway, I did fine just carrying water.
The start of the run was nice and cool, better than previous years. Right away you start climbing and running near 6000 ft which most of us aren't used to. We had a good group Steve, Logan, Dave, James, Bill and myself. Most of the other 20 people that came train with Kendra's group. After 3 miles I had to stop and go the bathroom, I then had a challenge trying to catch back up to the group.
There are two really good hill climbs on this run, which makes things challenging. I didn't do so great on the first hill, but the second hill was better and overall I did pretty good on the downhills.
I was predicting a finishing time around 2:18, but managed to come in right at 2:13:07 for 17.3 miles (7:42 average) so that was good
Of course the highlight of this run is soaking in the cold stream after the run. Had a nice ice bath for about 10 minutes.
This was a good way to finish off the week. I was able to hit 60 miles for the week and the ankle seems to be getting stronger now I just need to string together a bunch of 60, 70, and 80 mile weeks throughout the summer.
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