As I climbed uphill, I realized this was going to be an all uphill, then all downhill type run. I adjusted my expected timeline accordingly to save my knees. Upon entering the park area, I ran next to the creek for a while, following some very serious terrain undulations until I was forced onto the road, at which point I got on a nice single track above the road. This was much easier going, but still all uphill. Very nice running up the canyon at an easy pace to get my long run in for the week. At the watershed boundary and conveniently an hour into the run, I took a short two minute break before turning around.
The way down was difficult even though I stuck to the road. My knees and quads were screaming!
I made it down, back to the hotel in 55 minutes. Upon hitting some flat ground, I actually sped up to a quick trot just because I could.
After a quick shower, I got a burger. Then I needed a burger and shake. The burger was easy. I couldn't find a place near the hotel that sells ice cream. So I stopped into the hotel bar and had a couple glasses of merlot with a chocolate molten lava ice cream thing...WOW! That was good, but I still needed that orea shake. I found it two blocks away at the Carls Jr after stopping into a couple other restaruants to see if they had ice cream. With that fix, I went home and hit the rack.
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