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Holladay,UT,USA

Member Since:

Mar 29, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Marathon Finish

Running Accomplishments:

2011 Salt Lake City Half  1:42  

2010 Buffalo Run 25 K  2:25  

2010 St George Marathon 3:48  

2011 Mid Mountain Trail Marathon 4:27 

2011 Squaw Peak 50 mile 14:00:49 

Short-Term Running Goals:

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Personal:

married, 4 children

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Saucony Peregrine 6 Lifetime Miles: 569.92
New Balance 1080 Lifetime Miles: 43.22
Saucony Peregrine 6 Blue Lifetime Miles: 565.84
Peregrine 8 Lifetime Miles: 332.00
Saucony Peregrine 2019 Lifetime Miles: 251.24
Brooks Cascade 14 Lifetime Miles: 345.28
Brooks Cascading 15 Lifetime Miles: 260.39
Saucony Peregrine Lifetime Miles: 181.64
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Adventure with brother Oreo down in Moab.  We wanted to get some time under the belt on a series of ups/downs/trails and also just some good times to get out of the hometown.

 Started at Pritchett canyon trailhead to Pritchett arch to Hunter Rim Trail to Kane County Road.  This loop was awesome because we were totally alone for these miles and it was cool to be in this expansive red rock country just finding our way through.  Pritchett arch is huge and in such an out of the way place it was fun to see.  The run along Hunters Rim looking down into Hunter Canyon is also pretty spectacular.

We then took the Kane road to the start of the Amasa back trail system, up Cliffhanger trail with lots of bikers and Jeeps.  We followed this all the way to the Jackson overlook.  Oreo powered past this mountain biker near the steep top and really pissed him off in a friendly way, just to have a runner blow by him when he was working so hard himself.  The overlook puts you 1000 feet or so above the valley below.  Stunning views.  Then off to Potash Arch trail with a loop down Rockstacker and Jackson trails to complete the loop.  We were both out of water and I was seriously underfueled and totally done...I'm going to somehow have to figure out how to get gels in on a regular basis if I hope to finish Squaw...I also nearly died fording the Kane river near the end that had us cross nearly chest deep ice cold water for 25 to 30 feet...I seriously could not breathe for a bit without major painful effort.  

Anyway fun, glorious stuff.  It's good to be alive and it's good to be in Moab. 

Cascadia 6 Miles: 25.00
Comments
From Oreo on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 20:17:50 from 71.38.251.50

Great report - brohiem. I'll have to remember to tell you not to look into the lights when we get by a river again.. Great times..and you ate that fruit pie like momma made it...

From jun on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 21:30:25 from 63.224.105.4

Wow, great run boys. So jealous, that looks awesome. As for gels, maybe you should try something else; shot blogs, Gu chomps, granola bars, beef jerkey, whatever. As long as you can get the calories, anything goes really.

Watching all of our cool trail runners on this site I'm think we need to maybe do a trail runners festival!!! Maybe that's what I'll use Quest for King's for.

From Bryce on Sun, May 01, 2011 at 23:50:51 from 76.27.58.194

That is such an awesome area! Glad you guys got that done. Great run and sweet mileage.

From gdoc on Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:48:47 from 98.202.195.25

Thanks for the advice Jun... chocolate Dunford donuts it is!

From Scott Wesemann on Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:40:53 from 66.239.250.209

Great run guys. I agree with Jun, we should get all of the local boys together for a sweet trail run. You guys should definitely plan on Quest for kings this year.

Post up some pics!

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