Training Log Archive: biggins

Thursday night training at Boreal

Ran in the PCT from Echo Lakes into Aloha Lakes, which are awsome. That was the whole plan for the day, but then I got there and felt good, so ran some more up to Mosquito Pass, then decided that since I was already that far in, I might as well climb up something. Went up Mt Price, which was lots of fairly easy open slabs for most of it, still a few snowfields here and there, then the last part to the ridgeline got 3rd class creepy. Found a couple false summits then the real one, but it looked far more dodgy than I wanted to do so I bailed (sounds like its a walkup from the south side).

Figured it'd be fun to run back around the south side of the lake, but it turns out that all the cool mini ridge geostuff that made aloha lakes doesn't stop at the water line, so that side was death by a million 1-meter cliffs and was way slower than the far side.

Got back to the trail and started jogging back, and that's when things started going wrong. I still had water left, but it wasn't really doing anything, just making me feel gross. By the time I was at the west end of Echo Lakes I had to stop a couple times, and finally just miserably hiked in the last three miles or so with some epic cramping. I assume it was a combination of heat and water and salt and unacclimatized altitude (silly sea level trips), and probably also throwing in a 10k' peak in the middle of my perfectly good long run.

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the climbity bits

Mtb with Carol around glenshire

Back home, and up early from timezones so I went out for a ride before it got hot out.