Summit junkie!

5 easy miles with my wife. My legs feel great except my left knee is still sore from banging a rock during our adventure run in the Uintas last week.

View Benchmark Peak with Craig from Vintage View:

We had a really fun run up VB. It was pretty hot and muggy out, but I didn't mind it. Good conversation all the way up and we took the new route on the new connector trail. We both really like it and it adds about 1/4 mile each way. My legs feel great, but my left knee is still a bit sore.

PM: Weights at the gym for an hour working upper body/core. I had a really good session and I was totally worked.

Boot camp at the gym with my wife for an hour. We did 6 circuits with weights working our core and upper body. Did 15 minutes of insanity and then some sprints. Good sweat.

Mt Wire X2 and Little Beacon with Craig, Je10, MVH, Rad, Andrea, Brian, Adrianna, Ashley, Pete, JimmySG:

Rad posted that she wanted to bag Wire and Je10 and I wanted to get a double and Craig thought that was a great idea too, so I met Craig and Je10 at 4:15 am at the trailhead. The others would join us on our second lap at 5:30. The temps were perfect and we had a good time chatting and making our way up. We hit the summit in 43 minutes and change and then Je10 wanted to go down the long way. Both of those guys bomb the down hills and they dusted me pretty quick. I made it down to the trailhead just as the others were starting up.

We had a really good group and we all pretty much just chatted all the way up. We kept about the same pace going up. JimmySG led the way and I was behind him. Nobody wanted to pass, so I pushed it up to the summit with a group of 5-6 others following right behind. I hit the top in exactly 43 minutes, so faster than the first round. I really didn't want to go down the long way and Adrianna didn't either and she didn't know the way down, so I told her I would go back down the way we came with her. We had a pretty good run all the way down. At the saddle we passed MVH going up for round one and I gave him a butt slap and sent him on his way.

At the trailhead I waited a few minutes for the others to show up. MVH was first and I asked if he wanted to go up again. He didn't have time and when Craig and Je10 came down they didn't have time either, but we all wanted to keep going, so we (MVH, Je10 and Craig) went back up and tagged Little Beacon, which is a small knob south of Wire.

I had an excellent time out there today and got in over 5K ft. of climbing and a coupla summits before work.

The group on the summit:

View Benchmark Peak solo:

I had this brilliant idea to go run VB in the afternoon when the temps in SLC were 102. I had a very busy day and that was about the only time I could fit in a run, plus I could count it as heat training.

I didn't see another soul on the trails. It was just me and Def Leppard and the miserable heat. I was slow and it was a slog, but I ran it all up to the summit where I took a break to check out the view. It never gets old. On the way down the heat really took it out of me and it was a struggle to hit anything resembling a fast pace. I still had a great time and enjoyed some time to clear my head and think even if it was a sweat-fest.