In The Long Run

More mountain biking at the Dirt Series camp in Park City.  Worked on switchbacks, braking, descending, and drops in the morning and rode more Mid-Mountain in the afternoon. Took a few falls on some switchbacks and I'm a little bit bruised.

Nice evening run on Pipeline with Nate. My body aches and I have bruises all over my legs. The joys of mountain biking.

1.5 mile warmup over to the former Granite High.  8 x 200 with 200 slow jog recovery. Well, I assume it was 200m. The track was very odd, only 4 lanes and the lanes were super narrow, but the times seemed about right. 50, 49, 48, 51, 49, 53, 48, 48.   For a few of these, I had to swing out to lane 3 to go around a couple waking 2 abreast with a stroller. Cool down home.  Hoping to do a workout like this once a week and get a little faster.

Ran a longer Liberty loop tonight with Nate and the pup.  While running to the park, I decided I would do 2 x 1 mile pickups (to around tempo pace) just to gradually add in some faster stuff and to make running the loops go a little quicker. Ran right around 8:30 for the first one and it felt pretty easy.  My poor old pup is used to running much slower and I could tell she didn't have another 8:30 mile in her, so I bailed on the second one.   

Jupiter Peak Steeplechase.  Race report coming.