Ran from the house we're staying at by Winchester (15 min N of St. George) to the Chuckawalla TH to meet a group of locals on a loop, then back. I had an episode with a sweet black lab following me (and I was running beside Hwy 18 and he kept darting into it in the dark, I was worried he was going to hit and some poor family was going to wake up Thanksgiving morning not only to a missing dog but a dead one). I ran into some young hunters by a suburb and convinced them to take the dog so he wouldn't continue to follow me.
Loop was most pleasant with new company, took it easy, then ran miserable miles of uphill paved trail back. Hip + ITB + achilles were screaming...???
Then hiking and climbing. It is of note that I warmed up by redpointing (and leading) a two pitch link-up of an (easy/juggy/slightly overhung) 5.10b. And my belayer/husband left a knot in the end of the rope so when I was pulling rope to rap and clean my pitches it complicated things til I realized his error.
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