Late afternoon run from Chautauqua to the top o' Green Mountain via Bear Canyon.
Time: 1:41
Distance: 9 miles
Effort: Moderate
Body: Fair
Weather: Cloudy and Cool
Solid run...decent distance and elevation gain. Body held up well and felt best when moving (which is sorta the whole idea behind running, so things worked out pretty well).
Felt relatively good on the ups. From the Chautauqua parking lot, headed up McClintock to Mesa, Mesa to Bear Canyon and Green Bear to the four-way, then up to the summit of Green. Tagged the summit marker in 1:07, 39 minutes and change from the sign at the start of the Bear Canyon trail. Just focused on running a sustainable pace. Never red-lined it.
Came down the backside of Green. Cruised pretty hard down to just past the ranger cabin, then slowed it down after the flatish stretch. My quads definitely were letting me know I haven't run hard downhill in a number of weeks.
Wrapped it up with a nice jaunt through the Chautauqua meadow back to the truck.
The hardest part of the run was the first 100 yards, which is about how long it takes until all the muscles are warmed up, the joints are oiled and the engine stops knocking. Once the back loosens up...good to go. More progress.
2,686 feet o' elevation gain.
Love the header photo. Yeah, agree - the first 100 is the hardest. Last week I did the ski hill trail out of Chaut to start with FF and holy crap that was a tough way to get it going.
ReplyDeleteYeah, for the first 20 yards, I feel like you look in the pic next to your comment above!
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