Sunday morning was up early and on the rode by 7:30. It was a relatively short drive to the park. What a strange (in a good way) place. The landscape looks like something you would see in a roadrunner cartoon. We parked and hit the road running. We ran on paved roads for the first 40 mins before turning off onto a dirt road. This part of the run was at about 4000ft. At the end of the dirt road we hit a trail. It was steep and very technical with mostly loose rock. It was a lung burner to the top of the hill (about 5000ft). Once there the view was amazing! Unfortunately I didn't carry my camera... But the Perkins' did. Once I get them I'll post them. After taking in the scenery we headed back. A few of use pushed the pace n the way back down. It was one of those runs where one wrong step would have been a bad fall of a sprained ankle, but it was too much fun to resist. The run ended up being just over 2 hrs. Here's a few pictures from after we finished.
Later in the day we did a 2 hr, 30 mile ride up into the hills behind the hotel. It was a pretty tough little ride with the short steep hills and the headwind. On the way back Chris V. took a detour and 10 mins later rolled into the motel parking lot with a KFC drumstick in his mouth and a box of fried chicken stuffed in the front of his jersey... I'll have to post the picture of that too once I get it.
Here are some other pics:
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