I wanted to throw down some vert and miles to see how I might stack up against r2r2r. whoa, its a long way, I thew together 2 of my favorite trail systems/loops, McNee Ranch up from Greywhale cove over to San Pedro State Park. Felt pretty strong up first vert accent, about 4 miles of quick alt. gain. foraged through some slight trails and vegitation (and some sweet bouldering hands needed) to connect over to state park trails, dropped down into park and stumbled, again, knee looks sweet, turned a corner and ran, almost, into a small deer. scared the pebbles out of it, climbed up Hazelnut trail, then back down to st. park main area, took brooks trail up past the dry waterfall, connected back to McNee ranch, took service road to the summit of Pacifica Mountain, then went down to beginning. long way, felt seriously sore coming back up out of San Pedro. Cardio felt great but the knees and achilles were aching, made me nervous for twice this far. But, eased up as I went up summit, shambled my way down. I am convinced after this that we DO need to run at night in Grand Canyon. It got hot toward the end of this one, zapper. Anyway, it was cool cruisin down the hill past the tearful and huffing saturday crowd headed up...HFF, SOA, Masters of Universe
oh and ur-Lords, Nerds Vert Gained: 4945 feet.
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