Running 1:23:46 [3] 14.49 km (5:47 / km) +826m 4:30 / km
Long Mountain run.
One of my favorite runs ever? Yes I think it's definitely up there! For most of the week my body has been feeling psychically a bit wasted and today, finally I felt like I was getting back to normal. We Set off early from St.Moritz Youth Hostel, past the coop and hit the trails at the bottom of the mountain. We took a wrong turn early on thanks to Alan's fine navigating skills and we then changed surface to the alpine asphalt up twisting hairpin bends. Back on to the mountain trails we ascended through the clouds on awesome little trails twisting and turning up the mountain.Quite high up we ran through a heard of Mountain cows with jingling bells and the first king of mountains challenge was given when Alan shouted at me and Harrison to be the first to a mini summit, little burst from Harrison but I was feeling good so put in a little sprint to show him who's boss ;). the Final climb was brutally steep and we ran under the shadow of the ski lift. Me and Harrison were running and feeling pretty good so we split off from the rest of them and started to push pretty hard up the final steep ascent, after feeling pretty poor mid week I sort of wanted to prove a point that I'm actually in good shape, so decided to absolutely kill myself and just went for it! As I ducked under the last electric wire I got a nice shock on the back to give my synapses some extra impulses and really got going up the last part of the ascent. I Summited before everyone and I really made a gap to Harrison. I don't normally wear a HRM, but for sure I probably got a new max record! You could really notice the thin air and the lack of oxygen, but such a great feeling to finally feel good again!
Stopped at the top for some token group selfies above the cloud level and then began the super fun descent twisting down the MTB trails, throwing your body weight arround the corners like pro rider! Sasha absolutely flying down then, whereas most of the group were trying to keep our breakfast in our stomachs.... Stopped halfway to take a very raw and natural photograph only open to my instagram followers. Before I knew it we were back in St.Moritz flying down the steeps steps and mountain roads (Potato Paul literally was flying and flaceplanting down them) As we went through the centre of the town I had a huge grin on my face, serious dopamine effect from just loving this run! the perfect run ended with the perfect last dip in the lake for a great send off training in St.Moritz! This is why I run :) The alps are great!