Summit junkie!

View Benchmark peak with Jared T.

Last week was not a very good one for me. I spent a lot of time resting my sore knee and not very much time running. I met Jared at Chevron at 7:00 am and we ran VB via Ann's off of Vintage View in Draper. The trail was in incredible shape and there were only a few patches of mud all the way up and back down. The weather forecast called for rain showers, but instead we had some excellent running weather the whole way. Unfortunately my knee started bothering me about mile 3 and hurt on all of the hills, so we were pretty slow after that. It didn't hurt as bad as my Wed trail run, but there is lingering pain there from the 100, so I'll be taking it easy again this week as well.

If you have been following my blog at all over the last few years you know that Monday is lifting weights at the gym or as Jun would affectionately call it- Arms n back. I hit the gym for an hour with my wife and had a great session. Nate, my pacer from 50-69 at Buffalo was there and it was the first time we have talked since the race. It was fun to hear his perspective on how it went and he reminded me of some things I had completely forgotten in my 100 mile memory fog.  

7 on the TM. I felt a slight twinge in my knee about mile 4, but it didn't ever hurt. The last mile I could feel it getting tight, but there wasn't any pain like there was on Sunday. I'll stay off of the hills for a few more days and then test it out on VB to see if it is getting better.

Alpine Hwy solo:

I had a little more than an hour and I wanted to get as many flat miles as I could, so I just ran from my house to the Alpine Hwy and ran north until I hit 4 miles and then turned around and came back. My knee felt great the whole run and this was the first pain free run I have had since the Buffalo 100, so I was pretty happy about that.