Nearing the finish - photo by Yumay Chang

It was Thursday and I had to run anyway so why not sign up for the Evergreen Trail Runs Soaring Eagle event that evening.  After running 11+ tough miles on Tuesday at Rattlesnake I decided the 5-mile option was definitely a good choice for distance and with the dry weather and Soaring Eagle not being a mud-hole the Luna Leadvilles would finally be perfect there.   In fact, there were three people wearing Luna sandals at the event including Scott from Luna who I had met at the factory.

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At the top of the 15k

I was going to be in SoCal the for a few weeks in early July so I decided to look up a trail run to do in place of the Cougar 10-mile event on the 7th.   The Harding Hustle fit the bill perfectly, about the same distance at 9.3 miles but with more elevation at 2400′ plus it was going to be HOT instead of running in the rain like I had been doing.  The plan was to run it with Catherine’s cousin Tony but he came up with an injury and had to pull out but I decided to go ahead and do the run myself.

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