Life has been crazy the last few days and I took two days off from working out for the first time in months. I was planning on doing a 30+ mile run on Antelope Island today, but Jun came up with a better plan that we moved to Monday, so Antelope was out. I still wanted to get in a solid run, so my friend Nate and I ran Lake Mountain together. We met at 6:00 am and it was much colder that I thought it would be and it was slightly breezy at the start which made it even colder. After a half mile though we were both fine. We ran the first 1.5 and then Nate wanted to hike the steeper sections, so we settled into a quick power hile and enjoyed a good chat th rest of the way up. We would run at times to get our heart rate up and then back to the hike. The final push was tough as we post holed in shin/knee deep powder. Nate broke most of it since he had on his gaiters. On top we took in the views, snapped a few pics and headed down. When we got back to the road we ran a pretty quick pace (7:30ish) down past the steepest section and then I picked it up the last 3.5 running sub 7 the whole way. I felt fantastic. I think that was my fastest time on that descent. I finished about 5 minutes ahead of Nate and he looked strong at the finish. What a fun morning! | 