Kendall

8 miles on treadmill. Actually felt good to do some running after a week of hiking--even if on the treadmill.

Afternoon run up Grove Creek. 51 minutes up, 25 minutes down. Not super fast but extremely hot.

Late night run after working late.

TM

Silver Lake

 Quick trip up

 and back. 1,300 elevation.

BRIGHTON MARATHON (25 miles +/- 7,500 vert +/-)

Fun day out on the trail. Low-key, bandit run by local runners. Didn't race today but enjoyed time with Quintin Barney, his daughter Kara for a spell and ran with Matt P. for the remainder of the day.

Race start and finish at Brighton-> Twin Lakes-> Down Days Fork -> Up Mill D to Deso, Scotts Pass -> Guardsman -> Clayton Peak (that was fun) - > and back to Brighton Lodge where it all began.

Ahhhhh!

Some good hills (7,500 vert) and incredible trail. Visited places I've never seen.

Views of Mount Majestic (Clayton Peak)

Late run Murdock Canal.

TM

1 mile warm-up followed by  6 x 800 repeats.

3:20, 3:00, 3:00, 3:00, 3:00, 2:45

Felt strong and fast tonight. Shoes bugging me--hot spot.

WASATCH TRAIL SERIES @ SOLITUDE 

 2 mile warm up, 6.37 race, 1 mile cool down, 

The series moved up to Solitude this week, 2 laps of the "5K" course. Little bit of rain right before the start. First lap a bit out of sorts and heavy breathing. Fair amount of climbing before dropping the last mile. Settled in and found my happy place running the second lap much better and slightly faster. Held my spot passing a few on the first lap. Ran mostly solo on the second. Ended up 5th or 6th.

Bakers Pass. 3,000 ft elevation gain.

Wild flowers insane!! Post pictures tomorrow. Downhill gear a bit slow from race effort yesterday. Felt like skiing gates on the way down plowing through branches and plant-life.

DESO-DOG LOOP MILLCREEK (3,031 elevation gain)

One of my all-time favorite runs. Dogs were out en force.

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Black Pine Cones 

TIMPANOGOS (TIMPOONEKE) 2:07 up/1:25 down.

Jumped on it after work this evening. Moderate pace, keep effort low and in-control. Lots of goats, listened to coyotes singing on the run down. Walked a spell coming down after twisting my ankle for the...well a bunch anyway. Beautiful evening, just beat the lightning show.

I've run this thing over 20x and still can't get over the views. I'm sure my time would improve if I left my phone (camera) in the truck. Sorry for the overkill. 

Headed toward AF canyon agin this evening and parked at the mouth of the canyon to watch the clouds rolling in. Checked radar and it didn't look good. Had to abort my plans and instead headed for the gym. By the time I got there it was raining. 2 hours later it was still raining. Made the rigbt choice although not at thrilled about the treadmill, nearly walked out after standing there for 10 min. 

Stopped my whining and got going. 

Repeats: 1.5 mile warm-up, 8 x 400 at 6 mm (last 2 ran .3 miles at 5:30), 1 mike cool down. No longer surprised after some speed that my legs feel better after feeling heavy and tired all day.

WASATCH TRAIL SERIES

Back to Corner Canyon this week. 2 laps on now familiar trail. 2 mile warm-up, 5.5 mile race. Some moderate climbs with some fast downhill avg pace 7:41. Super fast group today. Toby winner again. I finished around 7-8th place.

TIMPANOGOS (TIMPOONEKE TRAILHEAD)

1:58 summit-PR!/1:21 down (took it kind easy going down until 2 miles to go-dark and in no hurry) 3:20 round trip. 

Ran with Matt Van Horn who hit the summit in 1:34!! Phil Lowry sighting as he was heading back down.

TIMPANOGOS (TIMPOONEKE)

New PR 3:17! Second day in-a-row. 2:08 up (10 mi. slower than yesterday)/1:08 down (13 min faster than yesterday). With the exception of a couple stops, and navigating through the hikers, I don't think you can (should) go down much faster in the dark than Craig and I did. Sub 3 looking like a possibility...for me. Craig easily did sub 3 tonight.

Headed up this evening again with a big head start on Craig Lloyd, Matt Van Horn, Nick Surlos. Met them at the top and had a great run down with Craig and I leading the charge. Lots of hikers/groups heading up the mountain (50+) as we came down around midnight.

TIMPANOGOS (TIMPOONEKE)

3rd summit in three days, 4th this week. After two consecutive days of posting PR's, today I fell apart. Felt fine just before the meadow and then started unraveling. Glad to have Matt P there to pull me along. Slow to the summit and slow back down--tripping, stumbing, felt like mile 80. Guess I had it coming.

19,500 vert for the week. 

Intervals at the gym.

1.5 miles warm-up.

6 x .25 mi repeats with .15 in between at  6mm. 2 x .50 mi at 5:45 mm.

Took a rest day with a big day coming up tomorrow.

PIE-N-BEER FUN RUN  (4:53:21 / 4,462 elevation gain)

Year #2 for me on this great run--and on this newer course. Fun way to start the 24th. Took 33 min off last years time. Still not really racing...until mile 16ish. After meeting up with a group at the top (just off look-out peak, which I missed), I followed a couple of guys,  JD, Scott Z. on a fast descent and then kept a pretty good pace going for the remainder of the run including a fast downhill from Big Mountain to Mormon Pioneer trailhead (avg 6:55 mm for the last 4 miles). 

 From Left to Right: Matt Pulsipher, Kendall, JD, Mike Place, Brian, ?, Scott, Zac

Photo Credit Leslie Howlett

WASATCH TRAIL RUN SERIES (SOLITUDE)

Not my best outting.  2 min slower than last week on same course. Still fun to be up BCC and Solitude this evening. Good, fast group of guys tonight.

Spectator at Speedgoat. Chased runners from start to Hidden Peak, Baldy, back to Hidden Peak, down the ridge and to the finish.

Great day watch some of the most talented runners in the world.

Rock stars of the Ultra World...Speedgoat 50K July 27, 2013 Snowbird, Utah

Left to right: Tim Olsen (7th), Luke Nelson (6th), Anton (Tony) Krupicka (2nd), Sage Canaday (1st), Max King (4th)

AM: TIMPANOGOS (TIMPOONEKE) 

TOTAL TIME: 2:59:26 (PR by 17 min and change)

Up: 1:57:42 (PR 30 sec); Down: 1:01:42 (PR by almost 7 min)

I got a PR today and sub 3 hr--big deal for me! A lot of guys out there can do it a lot faster...I think I can do it a bit faster but I've had my eye on sub 3 for some time and got it today and a PR by 18 minutes. 

Wildflowers are peaking.

PM: Got talked into running down Traverse Mountain. 5 fast miles.

TM Intervals

1.5 mi warm-up. 7 x 400 @ 5:56 mm with .2 mi jog in between sets. Last interval 800 @ 5:40 mm. .75 mile CD.

Wasatch Trail Run Series ( Corner Canyon)

7.75 mi race with about 1,000 vert. Not my day. Stuck in traffic, nearly missed the start, just couldn't shake the bad vibes.

.35 cool down.