Tomorrow will be 20-22 miles done as 8 mile easy warm-up. Then 3-4 X 3 miles at 5:30 pace. I'm doing this up on Tolland Road by East Portal. I'll run 8 miles up to 9200 ft altitude then run the repeats on a ~1% downhill/ rolling dirt road. Below are pictures of the road. The choice for this route has less to do with Chicago specific training and more to do with a quiet mind. The old (ca.1910)church is at mile 5 and I always look forward to seeing it. There are always fly fishermen behind it on the river. Just past the church there's a huge waterfall next to the road. It's peaceful and beautiful and I won't see but a handful of cars. More elk than cars.
Looking back at Rollinsville- that's where I start.
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I love that road. Always been considering starting at Rollinsville and seeing if I can make it all the way up to the tunnel closure. Done it on ATV before -- on foot would be a new feat!
Brandon- I park in Rollinsville and run to East Portal and back. Are you talking about running up Rollins Pass Road!? That would be bad-ass. I've ventured Rollins Pass Rd for a few miles and it's basically a 10ft wide single track trail that goes to the top of the Divide.
Cheers!
Moffat Road.
Ahhhh, up Mammoth Gulch. I ran up Mammoth Gulch a mile, I need to go further to hit Moffat.
That road, by the way, is the course for the Joe Colton race held in June every year (typically Father's Day).
For serious? I almost did that race... what's the course record! :)
See http://www.joecoltonadventure.org/results.html
I don't see any list of records for the 15 mile run there but I recall Kristian Agnew (I think that was his name) ripping something sick there a few years ago. He was sub sixes on the way up and sub fives on the way down. I talked to him post race and he was saying he needed to back off after the first mile down was a 4:3x ...
Leadville contestant this weekend Flanagan won it this last year.
Tough race weekend the 20th. You also have Mount Washington and Mount Evans the same day.
Yesterday - I guess being a brit we grew up with Thomas the Tank Engine, before he went Worldwide.
Today - I can see why you always look forward seeing that church it's beautiful countryside. Some places just exude good feeling, I have a few on my usual routes.
The first mile 'down' is actually mostly uphill... a 4:30 mile uphill at 9200ft during a 15 mile race is African world class.
I don't remember that. I remember it being all down hill ... but the down starts at 7.5 miles out.
I remember that we were thinking about having to beat the train. I heard the train and thought - oh shit. I looked back and saw a guy about 60 yards back. Last thing I wanted was for me to get stuck with a train crossing and he got a free "catch up." We both made it.
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