Summit junkie!

I went to the gym to lift on Sat, but it was closed so they could take the bubble off the pool. I thought about running, but I ended up just eating abour 2X the cals I normally would. Oh well, I think I needed the break.

Did 4 easy on the TM. My legs are still a little sore from all of the elevation at the end of the week.

I got into St. George marathon, so now I have to figure out how to train and run a marathon 3 weeks after running Wasatch 100. Maybe that wasn't the best idea.

I will never complain about my gym being crowded again. Since it is closed for 6 days for maintenance (which I think it a total joke) I went to the Lehi Legacy Center to lift. When I got into the weight room it was so packed that I couldn't find a single machine or bench open and when I went to the free weights my options were anything below 10 lbs or above 70. What the?? After walking around for a minute like a confused dumbA I finally saw a bench open so I jumped on picked up a 70 lb dumbbell and started doing some skull crushers. Ha! Eventually it thinned out some, but what a mess.

Lifted for 50 minutes (arms, chest, shoulders, core).

One thing the LLC has going for it is 2-3 times more roiders than AF Fitness Center.

I have had better days. My son was up all night puking, so I didn't get much sleep and then while driving home from work I got hit by a truck while I was parked in a turn lane. The impact was hard enough to scare the pee out of me and made my neck really sore. The truck was in much worse shape than my CR-V but now I have to deal with all of the insurance company crap and get my car fixed. Lame.

I did get to try running on muscle relaxers though. It was kind of hard to get into a groove and after 4 miles I stopped because I was worried about my neck.

Lunch run with Jun on the BST in Sandy/Draper starting at Willow Park. We had a really good time. The weather was perfect, although a bit humid at first. We didn't push hard at all and just chatted most of the way. My neck was stiff, but didn't bother me too much. Total time 1:02 with 680 ft. of elevation gain.

I met Jun and MattVB east of the capitol building this morning at 5:30 am to run to the Ave Twin Peaks via the BST. It was kind of windy at first which made it cold, but after about 5 minutes I had warmed up. We ran up City Creek Canyon to access the BST. Jun was pushing a pretty good pace and once on the BST he dropped Matt and I and we ended up taking a wrong turn which took us up a gully instead of winding around on the BST. We ended up topping out onto the ridge before Jun and we couldn't see him anywhere, so we both thought maybe we went the wrong way. We came to another junction and we knew both ways would get us to the top. Matt stopped to take a break and I climbed up the hill to see if I could see Jun and I saw him coming up the trail behind us. We all met up and decided to hang together the rest of the way.

Jun really pushed a good pace all the way to the summit of the first twin and I just tried to stay with him. What a gorgeous day! The views on of the city and valley are just incredible and I thoroughly enjoyed every second up there. On the summit I downed a gel and Craig ate a clif bar and VB wanted to tag the second summit, and of course I did too, so we made the quick trip over and tagged that one as well. we commented on how far away the capitol building looked and it did.

The run back was a lot of fun. We just had a nice quick pace the whole way. Jun got ahead a few times and had to stop and wait, but once we got back to the paved road I stayed with him at a comfortable 7:20 pace to the finish.

1:36 with 2000 ft. of vert.

6.5 easy miles.