While I was on the Wonderland Trail the other weekend, Andrew and Chase started a bi-weekly round of double Mt Si runs to help us prepare for the Grand Canyon run in October. This is a very popular training run for the ultra-trailrunner crowd. The trail on Mt Si is a four mile trail that switchbacks 3100 feet up the mountain. Then we turn around and head back down. Second lap is in the dark. Total distance: 16 miles, total elevation gain: 6200 feet.
My two uphill splits were 59 minutes and 1:07. I felt like I was walking an awful lot the second trip up, which is ok. That just means more room for improvement in a couple weeks.
There were a lot of ambulances and SAR people at Mt Si when we got there. A hiker/climber fell off the Haystack at the top of Mt Si earlier in the day, killing himself. News
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