Jan. 8
Mt Olympus (creek)
:42 min
1500' Gain
4 Miles
Olympus trail to the creek. Still at red air quality. Really feeling the bad air in the lungs on this run, descending the trail back into the inversion it smelled like stepping into a garage with a car running.
Jan. 9
Grandeur Peak
1hr:23
2600' Gain
7.5 Miles
Overall a nicely packed down trail. Quite nice to run this again as it's one of my favorite trails. Descent PR was unexpected (8 minutes faster). Much better air today, but still a far cry away from being healthy.
Jan. 10 AM
Olympus Creek
:51min
1550' Gain
4 Miles
Awfully warm and windy up there last night. Which is good since all of the inversion is gone, and a lot of snow melted away. Surprised to run on a dry and, somewhat, dusty trail. However, where there was snow it was completely iced over. Took a slight jab at ascending Blister Hill, but it was far too slick. Overall, tip toeing in some spots, hauling ass in others.
PM
Rattlesnake Gulch
18min
650' Gain
2 Miles
What a huge contrast from this morning! Ran this in full winter gear, really cold and actually snowing hard enough that I should've worn ski goggles. Was hoping to spin a few laps, but I couldn't see.
Jan. 11 ~ Off / Alta (skiing).
Jan 12
Shoreline Paths
:55 Min
750' gain
5 miles
Zoo TH to Red Butte gate and back. Storm totals in the foothills are in the 20-30" range. Not much foot traffic yet.
Jan 13
Shoreline Paths
1hr:33
1000' Gain
8 Miles
Zoo TH to Dry Creek and back. 10ยบ temp reading (via SLC weather on the iPhone weather app). Found it weird to pass people using skis and climbing skins with full alpine winter gear on a popular running and hiking trail. I guess 20"-30" of snow on the surrounding foothills will do that. There's enough snow that there's ski tracks descending from most all surrounding valley foothill summits.
Overview: Tough week for running with the arctic cold snap and snow that came through town. Still happy to have ran a bit.
Vert: 8050' Gain
Time: 6hr
Miles: 30.5
2 comments:
Sucks about the temperature and weather troubles. I'm guessing that's why we're left picture-less this week? I was complaining about 30 degrees, which just seems silly compared to the single digits. Impressive that you're able to get out and run at all when goggles are needed!
It's been tough motivating during the latter part of the week. - Wearing base layers under my insulated winter tights, and it's still cold. My phone shuts down when I take it out to shoot images, thinking that's a temperature issue. But I'm really looking forward to mid 20's temps. Sounds weird, but after running in single digits, it sounds nice.
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