Another early morning, this time meeting Cody around dawn to shuttle a car up to Leatham Hollow so we could mark the first 19 or so of the Bear 100. We left his car and drove back to Dry Canyon and hobbled out of my car. We were both a little beat from our weekends of running, and looking at a pretty big hill. So we took it easy up the canyon trail, mixing hiking and low-gear running as we marked the course and caught up talking about summer running. I was nursing the hammy and ankle and Cody had knee problems, so we were wounded together and weren't trying to push. Stopping every 1/4 or so to tie ribbon on a tree helps slow the pace, anyway. Once we got up the hill to the Syncline Trail we started running consistently, it's a nice soft stretch there with a great view of the valley and so many colors, and my legs loosened up some. Ran there and tried not to hit too many cows, then up and over to Providence Canyon and then another up to the Millville peak (is that its name?). Really nice colors, pretty moderate trail so we weren't fighting a lot of intense climbing. Where we did have hills on the Logan Peak course we walked. Then we headed down Leatham Hollow, which was a really pretty part of the run and we were loose enough by then to keep a nice pace (between frequent stops to mark, in my opinion our section had to be the best marked of the race). It was really getting warm by the end, so I'm glad we started early. Cooled our feet and legs in the stream at Leatham for awhile, which was just right. I was pretty beat, the week was started to take it's toll on my energy. Then a big lunch and a 2-hour nap. brooks cascadia
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