AM – doggie joggie. 4 miles, easy. AHR 136. Slooooow.
PM – Green with Pittbrownie, JV and Brandon. A blogodate of sorts. I had briefly met Pittbrownie post Pikes, but had not run with him until this session – a nice treat as he was in town. Very impressive dude, but he has an ultrarunning problem. Brandon looks like he is really readying up for Denver, and Jeff seems to have bounced back into his typical mountain goat form post his broken foot. I had planned for us to go up Flag and then over to Green, but JV convinced us to go over Green via the pass between the 1st and the 2nd Flatiron (visible to some extent in the pic above). This of course is ridiculous steep – with sections over 35% grade and crap for footing but it was fun to get out there. The lady bugs are not as thick as they have been up there but there are still a good number. Afterwards we took the gentler and beautiful trail down of Long Canyon. No bear sightings … :(
7 miles. Great run, good conversation, and thankfully the guys were merciful on me with the pace.
Video from Brandon.
Green Mountain Extreme from Brandon Fuller on Vimeo.
Good times! And you didn't even mention the beers afterwards.
ReplyDeleteLooks like y'all got your tails whooped by the guy in white (JV?).
ReplyDeleteThanks for setting this up, GZ.
ReplyDeleteNick - Yeah, Mr. "Healing a Broken Foot" put some hurt on us.