Saturday, January 29, 2011

Feeling Too Good

I hadn't run for almost two week, not counting a three mile jog last night, because I've been busy and had a mild cold, but today with the temperature at about 60 I decided it was time to make up for it. I took the motorcycle out and headed to Eldorado Springs. It was certainly a shorts and t-shirt afternoon.

With rested legs it was fairly easy to run uphill. The first hill was 2.2 miles long with a 3.5 percent grade. I came off of that and started onto another climb of about two miles at 4% grade. Things leveled out for a while as I entered Eldorado Canyon, but from there I started up Rattlesnake Gulch. This climb was something over 2 miles and an average of 9% grade. I was cold by the time I reached the end of the climb and my IT bands were starting to act up. I forgotten all about them for the past few years. I was 9 miles into the run at the turn around point and on my way down decided that I was not going back the way I came.

I was able to make it back to the motorcycle with just a 4 mile return and 1800 ft of vertical. I was pleased with the run overall especially that I was able to run it all; I stopped for pictures but I was moving most of the time. I was surprised that I was out for six minutes shy of three hours, but almost nothing was flat.


There is a road at the bottom of the valley

I generally look worse in photos on a run


These rocks are the same as the ones in the photo below

3 comments:

  1. Weird, the pics actually look better when you click on them to enlarge. It's funny that that can be you're almost everyday run.

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  2. You're right; the image is better. I'll add another photo or two; there were climbers on the side of that cliff in another photo but I left the photo out because I thought they wouldn't show up. Only could muster 5 miles today with the sore IT band.

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  3. Yikes, I need to proof my comments...It was supposed to read, "It's amazing that that can be your almost everyday run."

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