Afternoon Trail Run

Night Trail Run

Morning Trail Run

Cotopaxi 😻😻

09:00: Ran from Outward Bound to Twin Lakes and back, solo and unsupported. Beautiful day and not too sore from yesterday’s big one.

Route starts out boring w/ some paved roads turning to dirt turning to double tack and finally single-track. Rolling and net-uphill basically from 1 mile in until it tops out just past 10M above twin lakes. Mostly very easy, smooth trail and the climbs are not super steep. Descent into TL is steep but mostly smooth, w/ the end on a steep dirt road.

Looped around the parking lot and then headed back ~23km (actually net down on the way out since the short, steep descent into TL takes you below the starting altitude ~2840m at the low point).

Really tried to practice patience on this one and kept the outward leg super chill and boring effort wise. Took the climb up pretty easy and then let myself squeeze a bit for the downhill 10ish miles downhill. Felt really, really good on these and was running well and had a big negative split back to the start (2h00 vs 1h50).

Finished continuing up the road back toward powerline to hit 4h00, and went to 4h04 to round up to 48km (30M).

Really good run. Good practice running patiently, fueling was good (only liquid calories + 1 maurten 100 caff gel) and no stomach issues with 345 cal/hr. Honestly could have drank more, very thirsty and dehydrated all afternoon.

Also worth noting that there was almost no stopped time on this run. A couple downed trees to climb over and a couple places I had to check the map but otherwise continuous running for 4+ hrs.

Total run 48km++, 30M in 4h04, 1031m vert.

Drank 4x maurten 320 + non caff nuun
1 muarten 100 caff gel at about 2h30

1380 cal / 4 hrs = 345 cal/hr


Top Sports

Tyler Andrews

Practicing patience - Big negative split from OB to TL and back

Sign up to see the comments.

Splits

Sign up to view more activities from Tyler Andrews

Afternoon Trail Run

Night Trail Run

Morning Trail Run

Cotopaxi 😻😻

Night Trail Run

Want to see more?

The #1 app for runners and cyclists

Sign Up for Free. Track your progress and reach goals. Join 100 million active people on Strava.

See More from Tyler