IC Sundays

Made my first trip up to Barr Camp today and dragged my Jen along. I wasn't quite as ready for it as I thought. Between the incline on Friday and the 5 mies I did yesterday, my legs were pretty damn tired before I even got up Ruxton. I'm sure the bottle of wine I had last night didn't help either. Regardless, we decided to take it fairly easy today and not beat ourselves up too much. Total time was silly long, but that's mostly because we were just enjoying the hike down. Our time up is what made me happy.

Location: Barr Trail (from Memorial Park to Barr Camp)
Distance: 7.6 miles (to Barr Camp)
Time to base of Hydro St. ~15min
Time to top of W's: 52:30
Time to No Name Creek: 1:19
Time to 7.8 mile Sign: 1:48
Time to Barr Camp: 2:22

The up side: Taking out the ~15 min to Hydro St, that's faster than my time up to Barr Camp on race day of BTMR last year.
The down side: I have 2 enormous new blisters and the front of my toe is still bruised. Oh, and must eat before trail next time.

It's amazing. My muscles can hurt like hell andI can force them to keep going and going, but a couple of sissy little blisters can slow me down. How annoying.