Hiccup

Mon - easy five miles in the AM, pretty sore from the Garden.  Incline 18 after work.

Tues - run commute 63.  Five there, 6.4 back.  CityRock for lunch.

Wed - run commute 64.  Five there, 4.2 back.  SAR training in the evening.

Thurs - early morning Iron Mountain with the dogs, then run commute 65.  7.5 there, five back.

We've been dogsitting our friend Hiccup for the past week while his owners are in Alaska.  Been a great time!

Off to Pittsburgh tomorrow.  Finally running the Rachel Carson Trail Challenge I've been talking about for years now.  Very excited, for the run and for all the Yuengling and Iron City I'm going to get to drink.

Springs Downhill Mile/Garden 10

Mon - incline 17.

Tues - run commute 61, five there and six back.

Wed - run commute 62, five there and six back.

Thurs - run commute 63.  Planned for a longer run home but I ran into Tremboli and Carson on the Santa Fe trail.  They were on their way to Goat Patch Brewing so I joined them.

Fri - nice 7.5 miler on the Garden trails in the AM.  Was planning on an evening incline but as I was leaving the house the SAR alarm went off and I headed up to Palmer Lake to help find a lost hiker.

Sat - Springs Downhill Mile.  Officially 5:46, my Garmin had my mile at 5:38 with a long course.  Solid effort, I was hurting really bad the last quarter mile.  Then off to hang with the SAR dogs.  After that I was on my way over to the incline when the damn SAR alarm went off again.  Did end up at the top of the Incline, but I got a ride up.  Ended up getting to drive our off road vehicle back down Longs Ranch Road which was fun.

Sun - Garden 10 miler.  1:13:31.  Love this race.  Ran smart and pushed hard.  Saw a buddy a ways up at the Balanced Rock turnaround and I spent the next 2.5 miles trying to catch him.  Was really in the hurt locker the final three miles of the race.  On the last steep hill he caught a peek of me sneaking up on him and he surged and got a little gap on me, and that was enough that I couldn't catch him over the final miles.  

Decent week.  Wanted a few more miles and a bit more vert, but SAR fucked things up on that front.

run - 61 miles, 12 hours, 6900 feet of climbing

hike - 31 miles, 14 hours, 4500 feet of climbing

Great Divide 100k

Not quite as quick as I wanted but I covered some distance up at Mueller State Park on Saturday.  The low key Great Divide 100k was four laps around the park.  A good early season sufferfest to get me ready for some upcoming objectives.  Moved steadily the entire day, just slowed down a bit the last lap.  Nice trails up there, I'd visit a lot more if Colorado state parks were dog friendly.

For the week:

run - 94 miles, 22.5 hours, 14440 feet of climbing

hike - 31 miles, 12.5 hours, 3500 feet of climbing

Ark Valley Humane Society 5k

Great weekend as after some SAR stuff on Saturday we headed down to Salida.  Ran the Ark Valley Humane Society 5k with Mookie, visited some breweries, and camped out up near Beasway.  Mookie says we need more van in our lives.

The 5k was fun.  Mook and I got to the turnaround in a group that was challenging for second place, but with the heat and his tongue hanging out I backed off the pace in the second half.  He had a good time, especially the pup cup at the finish, but prefers our early morning off leash hikes.

Decent week, decent month.  Hope to start stepping things up in June to get ready for the San Juan Softie.

For the week:

 run - 36 miles, 6.5 hours

 hike - 39 miles, 19.5 hours

For the month of May:

run - 194 miles, 35 hours

hike - 141 miles, 68 hours