Met up with Scott and Jun at City Creek to run the BST up to the Avenue Twins. The last time Craig and I had attempted this it was a joke. We had hiked a lot of the uphills, and I remember thinking at the time, that I didn't know if I'd be able to run all this even on a good day. Well, today I ran everything nearly right up to the point where we had stopped that day, so I was happy about that. Craig was absolutely flying, killing the climbs - there was just no way of keeping up with him. It was nice to finally see him hike one of the really steep, snowy sections as you get near the top. Once on the peak, we took a few minutes to take in the beautiful day - and then we let Scott have a head start as he needed to get down for a conference call. Jun and I chatted for a couple minutes and then took off. I hung pretty close to Craig as you go down and up the second peak but then as I crested the top he was already now at the bottom! Sheesh. Had a good time cruising down, had to stop for some dogs and to tie my shoe, so I was running hard to try and catch up to the other two. I finally saw them a while later, just as Craig was passing Scott, and now that I had seen them, I really tried to turn on the jets and push hard. I slowly reeled Scott in and passed him, almost getting run over by a mountain biker trying to navigate his bike up the mud shortly after. Ran really hard down the remaining section, catching glimpses of Craigs bobbing white hat a ways ahead. I knew there was no way of catching him, but I still pretended like there was a chance! Ha. I was happy to see him waiting at the road, where we met up again with Scott and then Jun and I ran on ahead as Scott slowed to take his call. Super fun day on the mountain with absolutely fantastic weather - shorts and a t-shirt two days before thanksgiving! Oh yeah! I wore my camera the whole time, so I'll have to see if I got anything good. For those of you up north (Davis County) Darryl from Wasatch is putting a 5K on Thanksgiving morning. Fun race, sweet shirt (at least last years was) - Anyway, it's a great way to start the Thanksgiving day - check it out at www.fatpackracing.com | 