Mt. Rose

First blog entry in a little while here; I've felt bad about not finishing up the Oregon vacation posts and haven't got to anything else. At any rate, on last Saturday I decided to do the hike up Mt. Rose - hadn't done it yet this year, with the TRT stuff happening. It also fit nicely into a training schedule I've set up for the Lake Tahoe Marathon at the end of September. The Rose trail is just under 5 miles up, and I ran about half of it on the way up, just until it gets steep. It was SUPER windy at the top, even at 7 AM. So windy that it 1) almost blew my hat off, 2) almost blew ME off at one point, and 3) seemed to blow the breath out of my mouth when I tried to breathe. So, didn't spend a lot of time at the top, just about 5 minutes to sign the register and eat a power gel. It was hazy from fires, too, so the views weren't all that great. Trotted back down, being careful to avoid falling and the fate that my friend Amber suffered last week up there. Made it down safe, having to go around all sorts of people on their way up. Total time, up, down and break at the top, was 2:20 - pretty good since I felt like I barely made it at the top.