Adam's Running

Good run today, we went on an exploration run up to the switchbacks on the side of the mountain. I have always wondered what was up there so I was excited. Getting up there was pretty hard because we just went straight up through Lambert which was pretty steep. About halfway up we found a little hole in the ground that when you drop into turns into a pretty good sized cave. We couldn't even find the back because it was too dark. There wasn't anything at the top of the switchbacks besides a dropoff so we just headed back down, then took high bench to the north end of Lambert and took Grove back to the park. Overall a solid run and in about a one and a half mile stretch we gained over 1000 feet of elevation.

6x660m hill repeats on Dustin's hill. This was probably my most consistent workout ever, with my splits being 2:32, 2:32, 2:32, 2:33, 2:32, 2:32. I was kind of mad I fell off by one second on the fourth one to make it so I didn't hit all 32's, but it's all good. I ran with Lil' Warner on all of them except for the last one where he took off the last 200 meters and I just ran it in at the same pace. Hard workout, but it showed me that I have fully recovered from being sick which is good.

Recovery run today that we probably did faster than we should have. We went up to the start of Hogs Hollow, but turned early and took some trails that popped out over on suncrest. Lots of up and down that made for some really cool trails. After we got onto Westfield Lil' Warner and I really picked it up and were running about 5:40's for those last couple miles. That probably was stupid because it's a recovery day, but when the weather is nice and you're feeling good sometimes you just gotta run fast.

Later did a strength workout: 161 pushups, 51 pullups, and core.

Today we had 2x5 minute thresholds in the middle of an hour run. We did about a twenty minute warmup, then started the first one down Alpine Boulevard. The first one was flat and slightly downhill so Lil' Warner and I hit 4:58 for the mile split. The second one was all uphill so we were only running 5:30 pace but it was a lot harder than the first one. Afterwards we ran through Lambert and down Moyle to get to sixty minutes.

Easy miles, then soccer afterwards.

My family was staying in Park City for the weekend and I saw this race and decided that it would be a lot funner than a long run by myself, so I signed up for it. I had never run this far at one time in my life, so I went into it without high expectations and more of just doing it for fun than competing. The course was absolutely brutal, and I have never done a race with nearly as intense of a course before. We started at 7,000 feet elevation, then climb 8 miles up to 10,000 feet, then deescend the 8 miles down. I made sure to go out slow since I didn't really know what I was doing and had a long ways ahead. I spent the first couple miles passing people (whcich is really hard on single track trails), before settling in with a little group for the next few. I kind of broke away from the group once the hills started getting more intense and I caught up to the top girl. Blake from Alta passed me at this point, and I probably should have gone with him but I didn't know how far it was to the peak, and I didn't want to end up dead at the top. The last mile or so before the summit was killer, and easily the hardest hill I've ever seen in a race. It was so steep that you almost had to climb it, and I used my hands quite a bit. This part was virtually impossible to run up and I fell to like 15 minute mile pace. After I summited Jupiter Peak it was all downhill so I took off to try to catch Blake, but I am pretty bad at runninghills and ended up getting passed by a couple people. about three miles out I biffed it pretty bad and a lot of the skin on my hand came off. I didn't hurt my legs at all, but my hand was hurting really bad for the rest of the race and I lost about a minute probably from the fall. I ended up finishing in 2:04:00 which was actually pretty fast for the course, and a lot faster than I had thought I would run. Afterwards I went and got cleaned up a little in the first aid tent, then talked to Blake for a while. Overall it was a super fun race, and I think I am going to do it again next year and try to break 2 hours.