5 miles up the canyon again with MattVH, Dorsimus, Steve, Ryan and Casey. I got to the parking lot 8 minutes late AND realized that I had forgotten my headlamp again. D'OH! Headed up the road by myself and saw a couple of headlamps coming down the BST connector, then they headed up so I slowed down to see who it was - some guys from my High School a year and 2 years ahead of me who we actually saw running on Saturday in the canyon! Kind of funny since I've randomly run into these guys at Ragnar and such. It looked like they were doing loops of the Canyon road and the BST connector...
The only reason I know Ryan and Casey were there is I 'caught up' to them as they were turning around at mile 3! Also around this time I could finally start to breathe normally again. Blech!
Casey and Ryan said that MattVH, Matt and Steve were not that far ahead and I might be able to catch them - so off I went. I had tantalizing hints of the headlamps again and again but those canyon roads are tricky to judge distance in the dark. Finally about 4 miles in at one of the horseshoe canyons you run in and out of, I Tarzan yelled across the chasm to the headlamps and they decided to stop and wait for me, which was very nice or I probably wouldn't have caught them at all! Finished running up past Sunset Campground and turned around for a MUCH faster decent, up and over the crazy bumpy moguls from the snowmobiles. Interesting how you don't notice those as much going up! Temp started at about 5° but I wasn't as cold this morning as I was last week when it was 10-11°. Interesting.
MattVH, Dorsimus, and Steve talking after the run.
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