Gaining more than you lose

6.3 on the BST in Draper with Jun. Was a mix of feeling good, then tired, then really good, then really tired and then back to pretty good. Jun took the high route that adds .2 and finished about 30 seconds ahead of me. Son of a!  Knees feeling a little iffy these last few runs, trying to take it somewhat easy when I'm feeling it.  

 6.3 Miles - 57:46 - 9:08 AP - 1190 vert

Jun and I were pretty booked up at work today, but were able to hit the gully near the end of the day. Decided since we didn't have a ton of time that we'd do a shorter run and just try and hit it hard. Had a brief warm up and then we just pushed the pace the whole time, with a little cool down at the end. Craig had me by about 20 secs at the top before waiting for me and then turning back. Those short fast runs actually feel kind of invigorating. 

4.17 miles - 31:20  - 7:30 AP - 200 vert

Jun and I met up with Scott to run on Ann's trail to view benchmark. I led the way for the first couple of miles, and tried to keep a nice comfortable, yet (at least for me) fairly fast pace. Once we turned off Ann's Craig pulled ahead on the steep stuff as we continued up. I pushed hard on the steeper sections near the top and felt like I was about to blow up when I hit thesummit a few minutes behind Craig. I was feeling slow, but then looked at my time and realized that I was 6 minutes faster going up this time than I was the last - in 4 miles! We spent a couple minutes on top chatting, and then rather speedily ran back down to Anns. Once we got there Scott peeled off and ran back the way we came (had work or something...) and Craig and I continued north on Anns, met up with Potato hill, where we just bombed our way down. Hit the BST back south around by the golf course and then back to where it meets with Anns. We had run it pretty hard and so the last mile I was pretty wrecked. I had stayed with Craig the whole time down until he finally dropped me in this last mile. It was a great little loop. 

10.22 miles - 1:39:40 - 9:50 AP - 1975 Vert 

Met Jun this morning for a Saturday run, and while we weren't certain how far we were planning on going, when we were sitting in the car at the trail head we didn't feel like going far! We finally got ourselves out and moving, and I deliberately set us up with a VERY casual pace, and was happy to see that Craig was just fine with it. We motored up (casually) the climb and got to the '10K' turnaround point and didn't even stop - just kept on going. Went up Canyon Hollow and then dropped down and across and up the Ghost falls trail. Took a brief stop at the top - just long enough to become completely frozen - and then we started our way down Corner Canyon road. I was so cold all I could think about was the heated seats waiting for me in my car when we got back. Finally though, we ended up getting into a little sunshine which helped immensely. Cruised our way back to where we started, finishing up a beautifully casual run on a gorgeous day. Great way to start the morning!

 10.6 miles - 1:56:48 - 11:01 AP (Oh yeah!:)) - 1451 vert

Once I got home I spent the afternoon cutting up trees and loading them into a wood chipper! Our neighbor rented one and we just went around the block trying to get as many of the blown over trees chipped up as we could!