I have had to miss the last 2 mountain madness Dirty duo training runs due to work commitments so have had to do weekend long runs alone.  Last week saw me in Pasadena California with the FCm 1/2 year awards conference.  I arrived Friday night, had a few quite beers, and turned in around 1am, which is very tame by FCm conference standards.

Saturday saw me busy with work all day, but manage to finish up around 3pm and threw on the runners and took off to see what I could see.  I had done a bit of research in the area and knew that there were some mountains nearby.  Being a bit unfamiliar with the area, I decided to stick to main roads and pretty much took off and set target on the mountains.  I had a goal time of 2 hours for this run, but decided on the fly that I would make the mountains no matter how long it took.

It was an interesting run, typical LA, not very scenic at all.  I stumbled across a jungle gym on the way and squeezed out 20 pull ups before continuing.  I made it to the mountains in about an hour, found a neat little trail network that I didn’t spend enough time exploring, found and use some porta pottys and then ran back to the hotel.  It ended up just on 2 hours and was actually a bit of a struggle, not the most enjoyable as my hip flexors were playing up.  Also, I only took 1 gel so may have been under nourished.

Running in California.