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Saturday May 30, 2020 #
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Limitless Vertical Challenge - Day 6 Results
The top 21 competitors have already reached Level 6, Double Everest - 58,058 feet. About half of them are running outdoors, which is impressive!
I'm happy to see a woman in 1st overall with 93,153' of climb on a treadmill but I'm cheering for the guy in 2nd place, who has climbed 88,180' outdoors. That means he is also doing some descents - maybe even all of them. He's not doing this in a mountainous area. Today he was out for more than 10 hours doing 200 m hill repeats in Pennsylvania. That's the elevation gain at Blue Mountain.
The top 21 competitors have already reached Level 6, Double Everest - 58,058 feet. About half of them are running outdoors, which is impressive!
I'm happy to see a woman in 1st overall with 93,153' of climb on a treadmill but I'm cheering for the guy in 2nd place, who has climbed 88,180' outdoors. That means he is also doing some descents - maybe even all of them. He's not doing this in a mountainous area. Today he was out for more than 10 hours doing 200 m hill repeats in Pennsylvania. That's the elevation gain at Blue Mountain.
11 AM
Running hills (Country Road) 1:21:52 [3] 9.25 km (8:51 / km) +482m 7:01 / km
shoes: Salomon Speedcross 4 - Navy
Limitless Vertical Challenge, Day 6
Hockley Valley
'Bent and I planned to run in Hockley Valley but the parking lot was a zoo with hikers milling around and cars parked in places that weren't places. We turned around without stopping. The only part of the Bruce Trail that's open in Hockley is the provincial park so we were thinking of Glen Haffy again until I remembered the 5th Line Hill.
I've done hill repeats on the road there before but I usually mix it up by doing some climbs or descents on the two Bruce side trails. This wasn't too bad, though. As roads go, 5th Line is a lot like a trail - rutted, steep, scenic and poorly maintained. In the first hour, only one car went by.
There was even some poison ivy growing right on the road.
I was doing hill repeats for a good cause - my vertical challenge - while 'Bent tried his best to keep up a brave front in spite of extreme boredom. If he didn't hate intervals and hill repeats so much, he would be a competitive age group runner. But nope.
This got me to my goal in the Limitless Vertical Challenge - Level 3: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina. Level 4 is 14,505 feet (4421 m), which was never in the realm of possibility.
Hockley Valley
'Bent and I planned to run in Hockley Valley but the parking lot was a zoo with hikers milling around and cars parked in places that weren't places. We turned around without stopping. The only part of the Bruce Trail that's open in Hockley is the provincial park so we were thinking of Glen Haffy again until I remembered the 5th Line Hill.
I've done hill repeats on the road there before but I usually mix it up by doing some climbs or descents on the two Bruce side trails. This wasn't too bad, though. As roads go, 5th Line is a lot like a trail - rutted, steep, scenic and poorly maintained. In the first hour, only one car went by.
There was even some poison ivy growing right on the road.
I was doing hill repeats for a good cause - my vertical challenge - while 'Bent tried his best to keep up a brave front in spite of extreme boredom. If he didn't hate intervals and hill repeats so much, he would be a competitive age group runner. But nope.
This got me to my goal in the Limitless Vertical Challenge - Level 3: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina. Level 4 is 14,505 feet (4421 m), which was never in the realm of possibility.