Brandon Fuller

Run: Mount Sanitas x 2 (5.32 mi)

Call me Mr. Excuses.

Met JV. Figured this would be an easy PR day. Nice weather, fast pacer — all set. Not.

My fault — ran hard all week and only slept 4 hours last night while waiting for Kim to get home from the New Moon premiere. Then I was up at 7 AM and busy till the run. So combine with a noon time run (I usually go earlier) and I just couldn’t make the PR happen today. Felt like it was in the bag but was surprised at the watch time. Felt like a good effort but just didn’t get the result.

Jeff estimated that we went out too hard. Probably. I ran the hell out of the first set of stairs and then was crawling on the final set. Need to pace myself. Next time I may set the watch to have that pacer dude on it and see if I can stay consistent the whole time.

The good news I guess is that I consistently hit this near 20 flat time. I can pull this out anytime. So hopefully with some rest (or something), it will happen next time. Sort of itching to go back over the weekend. How many times have I said that now? I haven’t had to try so hard to PR there before. Usually it came freely every 3-4 runs there. Now, I am stuck but feel like something will break loose shortly. I am running so much more of this climb than ever before.

On the way back down right at the end, I turned my ankle and it hurts. Combine that with my “soft tissue” issue on the bottom of my left heel and I see the signs — rest is needed. But with this weather being so great, I can’t do it — yet.

20:09 Up #1
23:51 Up #2

The east side was muddy and icy. We did that the first time but opted to come back down the way up for round 2.

I went 5.32 miles with an elevation gain of 2,593 feet in 01:19:22, which is an average pace of 14:55. View my GPS data.