j-lyn's corner

Ran up hoping to snag Raymond and Gobbler's Knob, but it was a fun group run and we went a leisurely pace, and I made the call not to hit Raymond's after Gobbler's. I couldn't be late to work on time, it was the first day of new hours that I instigated.

 On the way down we wanted to take a side trail "It'll only add on a mile..." If we wouldn't done the loop it would've added on 4+... good thing we turned back early. Others were wanting to bush-whack down, claiming it might be faster... but Jacob and I were still scarred (literally, the scars aren't going away) from some all to recent bush-whacking adventures and it can get REALLY slow. So we turned to run back, Sherpa Zac though it'd be fun to throw mile repeats in and the rest of us tried not to die.

Fun morning. 

Joined Jun and ScottW at the obscene hour of 4:15am to do Wire repeats. I'd remember summit times if I cared, something around 43-44. The 2nd one was faster. Didn't have time for a third, and I think only a couple were interested (by this time many had joined the 2nd lap and MatthewVH wanted to keep going with us) so we ran Little Beacon. Whatev, I just wanted vert.

Wasn't fast, but surprised at how long my legs lasted and how not tired I got. 

95F heat. Thought I could sneak a sports bra run in with no one seeing but of course there's truck loads of men doing work on the trail at DD and kids selling kool-aid and millions at the dog park. Oh well. Lost 2 lbs in the 31 min, and I drank 160z of kool-aid...

Did a triple summit series with Ku in the AM from Spooner Summit by Tahoe. Peaks are Genoa (left in photo) and the South Camp Peak to the right of it and the Duane Bliss is the one I'm standing on.  Decided to throw a 3 mile tempo in the end doing 7min miles and made Ku get tired as payback for saying we would do Mount Rose and then bailing on it.

Then came the death march, I mean pacing. We crewed Jim Milar and Carrie McAdam at mile 30 at Diamon Peak, both were suffering greatly from the heat. It was over 100F up at high elevation. Ugh. I started pacing at 7pm and finished off at 5am- 10 hours about 3 mph. I went through a good bonk with Jim but kept him moving. It was HOT- still in the mid 70s at night! It was a carnage-fest for sure, barely over half the registered runners finished the 100M. Jim finished but with high cost. Glad that we got him through it.