I ran the Tuesday morning route with Larry and Wayne. Unfortunately, this route includes the big hill up 2000 N. The uphill actually felt pretty good, but my quads complained about coming back down. I'm pretty sure it was the big downhill in my first leg of the relay on Friday (Leg 6) that did this to my quads, especially after reading Sasha's comments this leg: "We made a mistake on this leg assignment underestimating the pounding
effect of that downhill. It is very nasty - dirt, lots of turns, and a
three mile stretch of 8% downhill. More quad-trashing than we realized. Jeff damaged his quads on this leg, and it hurt him for the rest of the relay and threw him off his projections." Of course Jeff averaged 5:39/mi on this leg and I only averaged 6:40/mi, but it sounds like I'm not the only one whose quads were thrashed by the descent of Avon Pass.
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