Bear Creek Park East

Monday July 2, 2012
5 miles 34:48 6:57 average per mile
9:50 am) mid 80's Hot!
Good run considering I hiked a 14er the day before and came off a
hard shift at work.
Tuesday July 3, 2012
Took the day off. Needed to rest my body. Not getting much sleep.

Mount Bierstadt

7 miles
10:00 am) sunny and cool
B and I left at 7:20 am. I had to work till 7:00 am so this was as
earlyas we could get started. This was a very nice mountain to
climb and relatively easy for a 14er. I felt great lots of energy
and no effects from the altitude. Trail was very busy as it was a
weekend. The views were amazing! We did the up and down in
under 3 hours counting stops. You start out around 11,000 ft so
you get high altitude training from the start. This was good since
Barr trail is currently closed and we needed to still get a workout
in. Fun day and worth the drive.

Pikes Peak Greenway

10 miles 1:11:34 7:07 average per mile
9:15 mid 80's sunny & Hot!
Warm today and I felt it. I was actually bonking on this run.
Plan was 12 miles but 10 was all I could handle.

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Black Forest Section 16

Thursday 6/28/2012
7.78 miles 7:21 average per mile
10:30 am) mid to upper 80's sunny and hot
First time I have run here. It's a nice 4ish mile loop. Has some
rolling hills so it's challenging. Nice shaded sections to provide
some relief from the sun. I ran both loops clockwise. Might run
the other direction next time. Not sure which way is harder.
Probably a horse a piece.

b/asr/176

Black Forest Regional Park

10 miles 1:15:38 7:34 average per mile
9:30 am) mid 80's sunny
Took previous 2 days off due to heat and smoke. Still hot and
smokey today but needed to get a run in. So we went north
east to Black Forest to run. Only my second time on these trails.
They are non technical but lots of up and downs. I did an out
and back but got lost on the way back and added about 3 miles
to my run. B was waiting for me when I got back. She was not
really concerned as she figured I was just lost and not dead.

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Bear Creek Summer Roundup course

7.56 miles 54:55 7:16 average per mile
9:40 am) 90 degrees at the finish HOT!!!!
Was very hot today and almost threw in the towel at mile 2. Decided to
stick it out and deal with the heat. Glad I stuck with it. Ended up
 running 1:35 faster than last week.

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Mt Yale

Thursday 6/21/12
9.5 miles
6:00 am) upper 30's @ the start 10,000 ft.
Mt Yale 14,198 ft.
Drove to the trail head Wednesday night. We got up at 5:00 am.
after sleeping the night in the car. Not the best nights sleep
but got some sleep. We hiked the entire 4.75 miles to the summit.
This was a hard hike. Above treeline I was feeling it. The summit
was awesome! Only my second 14er summit. The down was tricky
as we got off route and had to scramble back to the top. We
lost at least an hour finding our way back. Going down was
much faster but was hard on the quads. We did do some
running on the flater sections. Had a great time and plan on
doing a few more of these 14er's this summer.

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