Praise King Salomon

Monday: Monday started with a 6k stroll to Main St. in Park City to loosen up for what would be an epic day of running. The downtown is very upscale and stunning - with boutique stores and "resorty" areas. Not to mention the fact that everyone in this town must be incredibly active because throughout town there are pro-looking basketball courts (special rubber for the court and glass backboards), beach volleyball courts nestled throughout the different resorts, pro style tennis courts, and everything in between. Got back from the run did about 20 minutes of drills and strength training (sumo-squats, and lunges). Chilled out for a bit then was off for an hour long rollerblade along the rail trail. Is this not a perfect path to rollerblade - averaged about 30 kilometers throughout peaking at 45 kilometers per hour! Again sorry for the 360p video quality on my computer it is crystal clear HD.

It was an out and back an came back to the base of Scott Mountain at a trail called Spiro. From here is was a hard steep ascent climbing 1500 ft in only a 3 mile span (couple sections had 30% gradient). The descent down this mountain cut my quads to pieces leaving them feel as though they had been through a blender. But after this descent I think my long-time fear of descending from having had so many stress fractures may be gone. The run continued from there to climb an additional 1200 feet back to another trail for Masonic Hill Peak. It was an incredibly exhausting 20km adventure. Unfortunately, I tried a new setup for the go pro and the video came out way to shaking so to spare the audience from a dizzying video I cut the video to 10 second long to just show how far I had climbed and how much more still to go (my apologies for swearing it's just I got a wee bit of vertigo when I looked down).

After that hit a hard 30 minute ab workout, watched the MTL v NYR game and then the SA v OKC game and was out like a light.

Tuesday: After a 6k warmup and 20 minutes of drills in the morning my brand new Saloman S-Lab Sense 3 Ultra (wow thats a mouthfull) arrived). My goodness they are sweet - so much technology is a shoe that weighs less than my racing flats (7.5 ounces). Put them on and went out for was was going to be a shorter run, but loved the shoes so much decided to push them to a half marathon distance (21.1k). Now this was not your typical half.m as it involved 3000ft of elevation gain between the climb up Skid Row, to Gamble Oak Trail, around Solomore Loop, back to the Lost Prospector Trail, and then descending back to the rail trail down a death trap of a trail called SOS descending 600 ft in 0.5km. What was truly beastly about this run was the half marathon distance with 3000ft of gain in 1:36:32. Also a very cool part of the run was up at the top of the mt. seeing two vultures (absolutely massive) soaring oo about 15 ft above me. Running up where the vultures fly just has a good ring to it. Here a some pics from the day.

Those tiny cars show how far up so far. 

Still more climbing to go.

Made it to the top

Hold on though, this day is not done. Off to the best track ive ever ran on in my life for 4X1km. Oo my goodness considering the battering my legs have taken the last two days being at altitude the splits were 3:15, 3:16, 3:15, 3:14 -woot.