Punished at Black Mountain

Had maybe the hardest Black Mountain climb yesterday. Ten minutes and 200m vertical behind and the sky is clearing, sun is shining all across the mountain range. I make the decision to jog back down to have sun screen.

Another start and up we go. Feeling good in sunshine after the rainy weeks. But today I’m not flying, and I really hit the limit towards the mountain top. The previous day ‘s 1.01 effort around PG&E trail along with being a few days out due to flu in the preceding week must have contributed. Total climb in 56.30. During ascent leg muscles just wear our.

Total time 1.40, like 5 mins from the best times. I simply couldn’t run a meter last night after this… today I can hope to run max a few easy miles.