Summit junkie!

BST to Ave Twin Peaks with MattVS:

I met Matt at the Capitol building and we headed up City Creek Canyon in a stiff cold wind and it took both of us several minutes to warm up. We had a really good time running up to the Avenues Twin Peaks above Salt Lake City. We just chatted the whole way and never pushed it too hard. We hit both peaks and then on the descent we picked it up a bit until we stopped at mile 6 to take a 'break'. What happened next is now known as the '6 mile incident'. Matt did an excellent job of describing the events on his blog, so I won't go into the details, but it was definitely memorable.

After the incident we pretty much laughed the rest of the way down. Another fun adventure out on the trails.

Easy 3.5 on the TM to loosen up my legs.

City Creek BST to the radio towers with MattVS:

Matt and I did another run up City Creek Canyon this morning. The first thing we noticed was it was much warmer out there today and Matt was shedding shirts before we hit mile 1. We took a new route (for me anyway) heading up the west side of the canyon on a nice trail that you can maintain a pretty decent run as you gain elevation up to the ridge. We chatted the whole way up. The views are stunning. Once on the ridge we went right and headed up to the first peak that had a radio tower and then we continued on to the next two peaks that both had towers as well. We could see the entire Salt Lake Valley, Bountiful and out to the Great Salt Lake. It was pretty awesome.  Just after the last set of towers we almost ran right into 3 deer that were only about 20 yards away. They looked surprised to see us and bounded away quickly. After going east for about a half mile we turned right on a faint trail that took us back down to City Creek Canyon and then we had a nice cruise back to the cars.

Weights at the gym (upper body/core) for an hour. No big woop.

I had an hour so I figured the best bang for my buck would be to run on the street near my house. I ran down the Alpine hwy south all the way to the end and then back up north. My only goal was to run a sub 9:00 on the large hill near the cemetery and I was able to do that. I finished in 58:00 in a t-shirt.