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Day 27 - Northern presis

Day 18 - Pacing John

That was kinda tough. Didn’t have super high expectations going into it because my legs were pretty tired and I’ve been feeling sick the last day or two so I was coughing a little this morning. As it turned out, basically everything went according to plan and somehow I got it.

In the first 600’ climb and descent I pushed it a bit and made a minute or so gap which was the plan because I knew I’d lose time on the steep climb to the notch. As expected I lost it all on the steep climb but still hit the red rock trail 3 seconds ahead of the split I had. I struggled on the climbs along the ridge and lost at least a minute. I hit great brook trail 2 minutes behind the split I had of 1:25:38. I didn’t think I could make up that much time on the descent but I bombed the steep upper part and then when I hit the fire road I just tried to hang on for the next couple miles. I wish I had a little more speed to close out on the fire road. Felt really slow during the last couple miles but I can’t complain that much.

Overall I think there were tons of places for improvement. Someone fast could probably run this at least 15 minutes faster, maybe more. I love how rugged the trail is. I’m hoping somebody faster will come and push this route further. Thanks Xander Keiter for the splits I grabbed from your strava, they were really helpful!

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Cycler

Speckled with maxx

So close yet so far

Day 27 - Northern presis

Day 18 - Pacing John

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