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Pass Creek Trail

webmaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:14:28 +0000

Thursday, I was able to get away from the brewery a little early, so I finally managed to get in a hike I’ve been trying to do all summer. Pass Creek Trail runs from Coal Bank Pass up to join the Colorado Trail. From the junction, there’s a quick but treacherous spur that runs most of the way up Engineer Mountain. A trail guide will probably rate the trail “Moderate-Difficult” or somesuch, but don’t be fooled – excepting the last quarter-mile, the trail is wide, well-maintained, and only a gradual (albeit continuous) climb. And compared to Rysy, which will probably forever be my benchmark for difficult hikes, even the summit is a walk in the park.

The peak itself was probably blocking a few satellites once I got near the top. While the trailhead elevation is two feet off of the published value, a look at the topo map confirms that I ran out of handholds at roughly 12,500 ft, about 500 ft below the summit. Getting accurate and timely elevation fixes continues to be a problem. I don’t know if that’s a function of the iPhone GPS chipset, the software, or both.

Name: Pass Creek Trail
Date: Aug 18, 2011 5:08 pm
Map: View on Map
Distance: 3.29 miles
Elapsed Time: 2:13:11
Avg Speed: 1.5 mph
Max Speed: 7.0 mph
Avg Pace: 40′ 26″ per mile
Min Altitude: 10,638 ft
Max Altitude: 11,864 ft

Runnin’ in the Rain

webmaster — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:11:59 +0000

The last time I ran was in early June, when the former Head Brewer called me mid-run to let me know he had quit.

Name: Track 010
Date: Aug 4, 2011 2:57 pm
Map: View on Map
Distance: 2.82 miles
Elapsed Time: 27:28.7
Avg Speed: 6.2 mph
Max Speed: 8.1 mph
Avg Pace: 09′ 44″ per mile
Min Altitude: 9,275 ft
Max Altitude: 9,551 ft

The altitude numbers are conspicuously accurate. Either I got lucky, or there’s been a MotionX update that allows for better altitude fixes when only about half the sky is visible.

Yowza

webmaster — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:50:37 +0000

The roads were finally clear enough for me to get in my first run since October, and holy crap, am I out of shape.

Name: Silverton 1
Date: Mar 5, 2011 1:08 pm
Map: View on Map
Distance: 0.95 miles
Elapsed Time: 09:57.0
Avg Speed: 5.7 mph
Max Speed: 7.4 mph
Avg Pace: 10′ 27″ per mile
Min Altitude: 9,176 ft
Max Altitude: 9,365 ft

AgTon

webmaster — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:23:25 +0000

I took a while, but I finally had a day off work when it didn’t snow. So I took a hike up to the abandoned (silver?) mine just north of town, and got some pretty great photos.

2:21:10

webmaster — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:35:41 +0000

So I ran the Indianapolis Marathon’s half again. It started out well enough: dry roads, reasonable temperatures, no hangover… At about four miles, I was on pace and through the only real hills on the course. There was something in my right shoe, or so I thought, so I stopped for a second, shook it out, smoothed out the sock, and kept going. I hit the six mile marker at about 58 minutes, and was feeling great. I’d been shooting for a sub-2:05 finish, and was starting to entertain thoughts that maybe I could pick it up for a few miles and finish in under two hours, which would be kind of big deal for me.

That’s more or less the moment that the instep of my right shoe split down the seam. After about half a mile of running in absolutely crippling pain, I figured no guts, no glory, took the shoes off, and carried them the rest of the way. I ended up finishing in almost exactly the average time, and in the 40th percentile overall, and while I don’t feel too good about that, I’m a little proud that I didn’t DNF.

I think there might be something to this barefoot running thing. It’s now about 36 hours later, and while my feet hurt, they aren’t that bad. The blister from the exploding shoe is actually far worse than the parts of my feet that spent 6.5 miles in contact with asphalt, concrete, mulch, gravel, etc. No cuts, thankfully – something I was not at all sure of during the race itself. My calves are really tight though. I think running without shoes must have forced me into a different stride.

Anyway, all I can think is, after thousands of miles, how did the shoe know exactly when to fail?

This feels about how it looks.

Steamboat Stagger

webmaster — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:07:26 +0000

Yeah, well, let’s see how you do at 6800 ft.

Name: Steamboat
Date: Aug 17, 2010 9:08 am
Map: View on Map
Distance: 2.05 miles
Elapsed Time: 19:24.8
Avg Speed: 6.3 mph
Max Speed: 7.4 mph
Avg Pace: 09′ 28″ per mile
Min Altitude: 6,698 ft
Max Altitude: 6,798 ft

One Year Later

webmaster — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:50:14 +0000

One year ago today, I decided I didn’t really want to be fat anymore, and was going to lose 35 pounds in the next year. I didn’t quite make it, but I can say that I’m probably in better shape now than at any time since that last high school water polo game. I seriously recommend that anyone with similar goals move within walking distance of a gym.

Note the precipitous change in slope once it got warm enough to run outside.

Sunday Runday

webmaster — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:17 +0000

Now that my endurance is (nearly) where I want it, I’m trying to build in some pacing work. This is a course record for me.

Name:    5K
Date:    Apr 18, 2010 1:36 pm
Map:    Google Maps
Distance:    3.30 miles
Elapsed Time:    26:41.5
Avg Speed:    7.4 mph
Max Speed:    7.6 mph
Avg Pace:     08′ 06″ per mile
Min Altitude:    679 ft
Max Altitude:    797 ft

Crescent Crawl

webmaster — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:53:09 +0000

Name: NOLA
Date: Feb 21, 2010 6:01 pm
Distance: 3.86 miles
Elapsed Time: 40:08.1
Avg Speed: 5.8 mph
Max Speed: 12.0 mph
Avg Pace: 10′ 24″ per mile
Min Altitude: 33 ft
Max Altitude: 108 ft

Click on this link to display the track in Google Maps. This link will be valid until Mar 23, 2010 5:47 PM PDT.

Booyah

webmaster — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:30:12 +0000

Suck it, everyone who hasn’t lost 10% of their body weight.

Being unemployed is pretty much cheating.