I just completed 3 more trips up Barr Trail since my last post. My 4th trip this year. So far it’s looking something like this:
Trip 1: 39:33 (Top of the Ws) - 1:02:54 (no name creek) —na— (Barr Camp)
Trip 2: 37:50 (Top of the Ws) - 1:01:34 (no name creek) 1:56:50 (Barr Camp)
Trip 3: 36:01 (Top of the Ws) - 58:46 (no name creek) 1:52:34 (Barr Camp)
Trip 4: 38:07 (Top of the Ws) – 1:00:56 (no name creek) 1:57:25 (Barr Camp)
Last week was clearly my best week but it was also the week I fell and earned these trail battle scars:
mountain pain
I’ve had a pretty hard work out week performance-wise since falling down the mountain so I wasn’t particularly surprised that I didn’t have the best mountain run today. However, I must say (knock on wood), I feel a little better on the trail this year than I did last year… not to mention, I am enjoying it more this year.
So far, I’m running comparable to my Barr Trail Mountain Race splits from last year:
36:23 (Top of the Ws) – 1:01:02 (no name Creek) - 1:58:26 (Barr Camp)
and I’ve beaten my time to Barr Camp every run up so far… so I am feeling encouraged and fairly confident that if I can keep it up, I will be ok for this year’s BTMR (my first race post injury) and in decent shape for meeting the cutoffs – including the new 1:10:00 cutoff for No Name.
So let the trail running continue! I am looking forward to running on the top half of the mountain because I know for me, the Pikes Peak Ascent race is really going start after Barr Camp…
I have a few new tunes to share below but the soundtrack for this blog post has to be this oldie but goodie:
Kiss the Dirt by Inxs 
Falling down the mountain
End up kissing dirt….
New Tunes:
Burial – by Miike Snow
In the Morning – by Junior Boys
Scattered Diamonds – by Hungry kids of Hungary
New Theory – by Washed Out
Go Outside – by The Cults
