morning - 9.5 Brian Head. We crashed at Preston's GP's cabin last night and had a great time. Stopped off at Cedar Breaks, had Tasty pizza, dominated Risk, just had a great time. This morning's run was truly epic and one of the things that keeps me loving running. We drove up to the dirt road that goes to the top of Brian Head. But I hadn't ever been up there much except one week a few years ago when I was trapped at scout camp. Ran up the road and felt the 11000 ft elevation. The boys peeled off on the super sweet alpine trail that I thought would take us up to the top of the peak. But instead it looped around it and took us up to the top of the chair lifts. So we mountainered up this pretty vicious rock face to get to the top. Awesome views up in the clouds and super cold. Ran back the real trail/road and then up another trail toward some more peaks to get our minutes in. On the way back we moved in to our tempo and had a good push down the hill. It got me thinking about my running... Often I've thought about if I want to keep racing hard or who knows what. Here's what I truly want: be in shape enough to go jump into an awesome 30 mile trail adventure run with my buddies on a whim, run around on amazing adventures with some super quick high school kids, and push out some fast tempo style stuff with them when they get going hard. Right now I can still do all of those. So I guess I'm happy. After this weekend, I am. (Riders 400.5) Even with a junky tempo on Tuesday, I enjoyed the week. Goals for next week: summer's over. Seriously! I can't believe it. Back to school this coming week. So whatever happens, happens. | 