This was it. Today was the day. I had a kinda icky week, and with my husband out of town, this would be my only day to get in a "real run." I wanted vert, my body needed vert, so I was planning a double Wire then Twins and/or Ted depending on time.
Having never driven to SLC at 8:30am, I was disappointed that it took 30-40min longer than expected! Traffic was awful. I knew this would likely make it so I would only get 1 Wire, but comforted myself in easy BST miles after the summit. Then I started up Wire- what a slog! I was frustrated. The perfectly tracked out trail form the first mile was covered in drifts, and I ended up following deer tracks much of the way. I couldn't run or even power-hike. It took about an hour just to summit (instead of 40min) meaning each mile took 10mins longer than usual. I ran down and decided to head over to I street where I was going to meet ScottW.
I ran a quick mile and a half waiting for his phone call to end, then sat a bit, which was nice. We left wondering about time. ScottW was fascinated with the cougar tracks. Every now and then I'd catch a "Oh, no!" and I'd get worried wondering who was about to die only to discover it was a cougar track that he had just stepped on. Again. Ha. Lots of fun, we figured we wouldn't be able to hit Ted and, still wanting a summit, headed over to the Twins. I convinced Scott to run down Bobsled. He laughed as I slipped all over the berms and jumps. Then cried the whole way up the 1 mile of steep uphill pavement that bobsled adds on. I had time to eat a joe joe quick before picking my kids up from school (again with traffic, and I was 5 minutes late).
I had quite a bit less miles than I was hoping, but still ended up with over 5500 vert, which isn't bad for 16 miles...
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