Got to trail parking right at the crack of dawn. I was overdressed with long sleeves. I guess I was thinking of the coolness of the canyon when I was dressing. Didn't end up in the canyon though.
So I did some (5) hill repeats on a 400 foot hill.
There were some hard bodied trail runners out this morning. I like being on the hill when there are young athletes about. In my imagination I am like them or one of them. Heh!
My new Garmin watch was telling me that I was getting 14:30 climb side splits which is unreasonable. 18 minutes is more like it. So I get to checking that out.
My new watch doesn't measure like my old one. It shorts me on my climb stats. Makes my look like superman on my split times. I have had it for too long to take it back. I ought to put a bad review to it somewhere.
But the long and the short of it, I am having fun. Try to not obsess on them numbers.
I got passed by a young biker on my last run up. At the top I tell him "this is the last one for me." I tell him I did five.
He tells me the most he could ever do was 3.
My ego ran away with me on that.