"Hardrock is considered the toughest running race in the country. In a 100-mile loop of trails and mining roads through the San Juan Mountains, it climbs 32,962 feet over 11 mountain passes and one 14,000-foot summit. The course is fraught with creek crossings and steep snow fields. Historically, only about half of runners who enter finish."My friend Brownie is currently running the Hard Rock 100 miler. The link on his name is a local paper following him along. You can also get to his blog from there. Anyway... I took motivation from thinking about Brownie during my run today. After reading that part (above) about the race he's doing, my litle 22 mile scamper today pales in comparison. If you read this on Saturday day, chances are he's still out there. Please send him all the good vibes you can. Go Brownie, GO!
My run started at 6am. We ran out around the lake and added some miles up congress. Once we got to our 8.77 miles of Austin hills, we'd gone about 11 miles or so.

I love hills. My goal today was to take every hill with reckless abandon, and OWN them. Consider it mission accomplished. I took just about every hill with Crazy Legs Kevin, and he had a garmin on. He said we ran about 6:30 min/mile up Mt Bonnell (both the front and back). Hell yeah! 6:30's!
I also ran the last mile of the 22 miler in 7:15. Overall outining time: 3:07. Net running time" 2:58. Ken's Garmin said 8:10 average pace for the whole run. Not bad for this hilly run.
I started to focus about about 100 meters from the beginning of the two main climbs, and then put on my IPod, and played this song below both times. On the back side, the song lasted all the way up to Karen's car. 3:04 minutes! Hell yeah!
I played it as loud as it would go, and even sang the first few guitar riffs for my running mates. (Play it as loud as you can at home... get the full effect!) (Lyrics meant nothing... Just needed intense sound)
I also kept alternating between thinking about Brownie's Mountain's and repeating Desiree's most known quote: "If it's hurting me, it's Killing them."
Hey Mike, how'd you do on the hills today?
I KILLED IT!
Mission Accomplished
84.5 miles for the week with one more day of about 10 miles to go. (no, i won't go 16)
Bruce, I lost 2.8 pounds of water weight today. 22 miles 2.8lbs.
(Tuesday: 14 miles, 4.6lbs.)
1 comment:
Raconteurs...nice. That seems like a good one to climb a hill to.
Nice job out there!
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