Afternoon Run

Evening Swim

Lookout Pipeline

disturbing the meatheads of Nashville

Afternoon Weight Training

Started late cause I didn’t feel like waking up early and so I could run in San Jacinto’s shadow on the way down. I struggled on the up. Just had a hard time getting in the groove and rationalizing the effort. I tried to meter out my effort on the up, but could’ve pushed harder. Made sure to take the correctest trail I could in the first 3ish miles. Lost about a min backtracking to the correct route, 2min30 futzing around with gear, 1min filling out my permit at the ranger station and 5secs taking the selfie at the summit. Few secs filling up my bottle at the creek and the spigot x2. Was 11min back from Brett Maune at the top. Frustrating. Flew on the descent, relatively speaking. The last hour or so, however, I was descending into delirium fighting the effects of dehydration which really caught up to me. I did this entirely unsupported. I thought 6hrs was in the cards, but not today. Huge respect for Brett. His record didn’t stand on this super classic trail for 9.5yrs for nothing. I may have to come back. Such an incredible trail and incredible climb. PS, the wet winter and Hurricane Hillary did a number on the trail, according to the ranger. Over 11inch fell in 24hrs in Aug. So the scratchy brush and agave and such was unusually grown out…and prickly. The trail was also somewhat damaged and washed out and there was a decent amount of deadfall on the steep climb to Grubbs Notch. I really have no idea what the trail was like 10 yrs ago, but just for context.

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