Saturday, May 15, 2010

Green Mountain TT














  1. Have it on a Saturday!


  2. I second Brownie's request...
    Nice to meet you last night Nick!

  3. And apparently this is not the first time GZ has gotten impatient...

  4. yeah, I wussed out because of the rain. I had enough of the cold rainy running after a 5k tuesday night.

    I can't believe that someone told OSMP - at least they did nothing about it.

  5. I'll agree that the trails/terrain in Boulder takes some getting used to. Coming from Colorado Springs (where 12-15% on a nice gravel surface is considered steep), when I moved here last fall I pretty much hated the trails most of the first semester. I remember the first time I ever ran up Green, it was two years ago and I had only been running for about a week after coming off of two months of injury and Johannes Rudolph took me up the Frontside route in ~36min. I was flabbergasted a the steepness and I think I spent most of the climb wanting to walk/throw-up.

    Huge step-ups, retardedly steep, giant rocks all over the place. But, I think eventually you start developing some very specific muscle-motions for big steps like that and you get over it and get a lot more efficient at it. Now I really enjoy a lot of that stuff, if only because it makes Gregory-Ranger feel like a flat race-track and because it's the kind of terrain that Euros like Kilian don't bat an eyelash at...

  6. Anton - missed you last night. We half expected to see you waiting at the top. We also hypothesized you emailed the ranger ... just to take us out.

    Nick and croo - thanks for coming down. Looking forward to coming to your styx for something similar.

    Not a competition but for the sake of stats, I think Boulder comes in dead ass last for not showing up. 1-5 for Denver metro, and 3-4 for Fo Co. Not adding that up or anything but I am just saying.

  7. Sounds like a fun gathering overall, glad you got the troops rallied from the Fort. I hope to make Sheep/Round (I vote for a Wed or Thurs night).

  8. count me in for the time trial in a couple of weeks, especially if it is more "run-able"(and longer)....i have no power to speak of, and like i was bitching about earlier, i'm not so much in to power hiking like gz is:)!
    i vote for either jv or anton calling the ranger as they both were suspiciously absent, don't you think?

    nice to have met you all!

  9. Piling on! Thanks for coming down in wet conditions. I kept watching my phone all day for the cancellation but "we" made it happen. It wasn't so bad once you were out in it of course. Here's to drier trails to come!

  10. I am all for another non race non event non competition no race numbers no scoring thingie up Gregory Ranger. Or up Long. Or over to Bear from Green. Whatever. Bring it.

    And in fact, we have track meets where competition is allowed coming up in June.

  11. GZ - The Boulder crew definitely took a beating, No thanks to me though!

    By the way, what makes a "race" anyway. If there is no registration fee, no numbers, no official timing, no prizes seems pretty hard to call it a race...what you did is basically a group run where some people went faster . The BTR tuesday tempo run does this every week - they pick a route and everyone runs it as fast as they can. Yet no one is calling that a race.

  12. For the record, I would not even call it a time trial. I call it a self motivated getting up the mountain as fast as I can and there happen to be a few other people out here who are interested in doing the same thing and then for scientific purposes we share data points which include times and then smack talk.

    But I am a wordy SOB.

  13. JT/Lucho - weekend idea is sound. May 29-30 would be about the only one I could do for a while though.

    Anton - yeah I felt pretty worked today in places that I don't normally feel worked. Definitely a whole different muscle group at play. I guess a few more trips up Amp and the flow would start coming.

    GZ - wait, are you claiming Nederland (or wherever it is west of Boulder that Lucho lives) as Denver metro? Looking for a recount.

    Kerrie - nice meeting you too, and solid run after your however many hours on the bike pre-run. Jury still out on the narc, but we'll ferret 'em out.

    Brandon - Nice work representing the 'Mont, and good seeing you out there.

    Nick - to be honest, I think the ranger was expecting something significantly larger than what he actually encountered on the numbers front. Once he realized it was no more than a few friends headed out for a group run, he seemed satisfied with the whole situation.

  14. Lucho lives in Golden. They make Coors there so it is most definitely metro.

  15. Golden-ish... and Coors sucks. I'll take Zack Rabbit IPA ANY DAY over Coors. Now if we could just get GZ to make 50 million a year we could all be sponsored by him! I represented the back woods mountain hood. Bill Fanselow lives by me so we may be able to represent next time! I'm totally looking forward to the FoCo throw down. I'll be there for sure. Maybe bringing a tent to camp after the after party.