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I'm not resting, I'm taking a photo.
Aug. 21st, 2009 03:53 pmIn preparation for the Imogene Pass Run (September 12th, OMIGOD ALMOST HERE) I have been doing a lot of trail running. And of course I have been taking my camera!
That's the trail on Animas City Mountain, looking south. I had hiked it (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catbear, did we do this with you? I'm trying to remember who we brought up here!) and mountain biked it (that is, hiked it while carrying my bicycle) but not run it before. ( Two more. )
Then this morning I decided to get some altitude running practice in and drove (I know! I feel guilty driving to go run!) to La Plata Canyon, where I did the trail race last month. I parked a bit more than a mile farther up, ran to the Kennebec Pass notch which is the first high point (not quite 6 miles, and about 2600 vertical feet, topping out right at 12,000) and then turned around and ran back. I think I'm in slightly better shape now as my heart rate was lower than it was during the race, and my pace compared directly in the same spots was in most cases slightly faster, at least on the uphill. Downhill I was slower, but pushing it downhill in a training run is a bit more risky - I think I can run faster downhill at Imogene. Looking back from the notch at the jeep road I'd just run up:
( One more. )
That's the trail on Animas City Mountain, looking south. I had hiked it (
catbear, did we do this with you? I'm trying to remember who we brought up here!) and mountain biked it (that is, hiked it while carrying my bicycle) but not run it before. ( Two more. )Then this morning I decided to get some altitude running practice in and drove (I know! I feel guilty driving to go run!) to La Plata Canyon, where I did the trail race last month. I parked a bit more than a mile farther up, ran to the Kennebec Pass notch which is the first high point (not quite 6 miles, and about 2600 vertical feet, topping out right at 12,000) and then turned around and ran back. I think I'm in slightly better shape now as my heart rate was lower than it was during the race, and my pace compared directly in the same spots was in most cases slightly faster, at least on the uphill. Downhill I was slower, but pushing it downhill in a training run is a bit more risky - I think I can run faster downhill at Imogene. Looking back from the notch at the jeep road I'd just run up:
( One more. )