weekend update

Went up to the tiny mountain hamlet of Highlands Ranch on Friday afternoon.  It's actually a gross suburb of Denver, but they have an amazing patch of land in the middle with some pretty cool trails.  $100, my sister, and I were on a team for the twelve hour Chase The Moon run.  I ran the first two laps, totaling 20.6 miles.  I was immediately suffering from a post-vacation hangover so while this was a good long run, it was nothing special.  I would get in another seven miles early on Saturday before the event timed out.  Great event, but it reminded me how much I hate staying up all night.

Sunday was the Summer Roundup.  Felt terrible warming up, but I had a really great race for me, running hard from the gun.  The course had changed (again), so I gave up on my original 52 minute goal, but I damn near got it anyways, running 52:49.  The race has you run three loops, probably about 2.25 miles each, and I went 16:36, 16:11, and 16:17.  That third loop would have been faster but by this point  you start lapping lots of runners and you have to run in and out of them.  It's a difficult race as the hills really hurt you.  Fastest mile for me was 6:15, slowest was 7:41.  Thought the 7:41 was going to cause my heart to explode.

My buddy Dominic from Boston was working the timing mat at the beginning of the loop.  The first loop I went into a tirade about how Boston sucks.  The second loop I could only manage a quick "Boston sucks, dude" and the third loop I could only throw the middle finger at him.  So I was running pretty hard.

Pics stolen from Pikes Peak Sports.  It looks like I'm advertising porn on my shirt, but that was the schwag from the wife carry race.