I mean, at least we got to run, right?
Not a bad day on the mountain. Smoky and hot, but not as bad as it was on Saturday. Weird at the start for sure, but fitting for 2020. Disappointing at the finish, with no beer garden and no real chance to see a ton of friends. But it is what it is, and the run itself was a lot of fun.
The splits:
No Name - 60:51
Barr Camp - 1:45:15
A Frame - 2:35:24
Summit - 3:51:51
Descent - 2:08:46
Little slower than I wanted to the top, just couldn't get much going from treeline to the top. Can't complain too much as this was the fitness I had coming into the race. As the legend-in-his-own-mind Keith G once said, "never let a poor performance stop you from talking shit to your friends," and luckily for me a ton of my friends also had mediocre days and I ended up beating a lot of them. I stopped to chug a beer with less than a mile to go, without that I may have cracked six hours. The beer was worth it though as I believe it was approximately 250F coming down Ruxton canyon. My legs are still wrecked two days after the race, so I ran as hard as I could.
Hopefully next year the new Garden to Peak Challenge (Garden 10 miler, Barr Trail Mountain Race, and Pikes) goes off without a hitch, I'd like to concentrate on that, including the Pikes Double.
I'll try to keep the running fitness around as I have two long ones in October - the rescheduled Salida Marathon and the Cheyenne Mountain 50k.
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