Big Mountains. Heavy Weights.: fantastic run

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Trail Run Tuesday: This is the best one yet!

This was definitely the best run yet this winter! Katherine and I headed up to Millcreek Canyon and decided to go up the very first trailhead for the Pipeline trail, Rattlesnake Gulch. It was just under a three-quarter mile hike up to the trail, and it was very cold to start. But, once we got up to the Pipeline the sun was just coming up and it was warm and beautiful. It was like an instant shot of happy! My entire day was better because of this run! I think I'll just let all the photos tell you the rest of the story...

Before we headed up. Bundled up for the 19º weather!

Rattlesnake Gulch trailhead

Sassy!

Katherine was cursing my name at this point. The climb seemed never ending...

To the Pipeline at last! Here comes the sun!

There I go! Photo by Katherine:

Above the inversion. Too bad we had to come back down into that gross air! I could have stayed up there all day!

You can only just see the tip of the Antelope Island mountains in the distance, center frame.

Photo by Katherine:

At the end of the trail.

Photo by Katherine:

Panoramic pollution. Photo by Katherine:

Look! DIRT! I love dirt!

Makes me feel like it's not winter! Photo by Katherine:

It didn't take long to warm up once we were in that wonderful sunshine!

This is fantastic!!! Photo by Katherine:

Dirt, glorious, dirt!

Photo by Katherine:

Here comes Katherine!

Must do this again SOON!

4.52 miles

1:01
13:30 average pace

Sunday, May 26, 2013

the long run

Another Sunday full of epic Corner Canyon goodness with my trail running buddies. I felt amazing today! I was full of energy and feeling speedy. I was able to power uphills and crush downhills. Where did all the energy come from!? It was fantastic! I kept getting ahead of the girls, which is totally unusual for me, as we all run right at about the same pace. It gave me plenty of opportunity to take lots of pictures. We did a Coyote Hollow loop to Clark's and then out and back on Ann's. We made it all the way to the end of Ann's Trail, where it meets up with Bonneville Shoreline. We had intended on 10-12 miles and ended up with a bit more. It was just a beautiful day to be out and we were all enjoying ourselves.