My husband and I have decided that we should be running longer distances and hills if we are to survive our upcoming Spartan races (Sprint & Beast). The Chuckanut Mtn.trail system provides just what we need: a huge network of trails with long ups and downs. So Sunday we parked at the North Chuckanut Mtn.trail head as we did for last week's first Spartan training weekend run. We agreed that each run from now on would be over 10 miles, since October's Beast will be 12 to 14 miles in distance. Our goal on these training days will be to run as much as possible, we now walk up quite a bit of the uphills but our goal is to be able to run up and down every hill by October.
This was our route:
Start - North Chuckanut Mtn. trail head
Arroyo Park trail
Hemlock trail
North Lost lake trail
South Lost lake trail
Fragrance lake loop trail
Chuckanut bay trail
Two dollar trail
Cleator rd.
Interurban trail
End - North Chuckanut Mtn. trail head
Here's some pics of the day -
Trails signs
Trails and road
Scenery ;-)
Lots of uphill and downhill, just what we wanted & bonus - beautiful forests and spectacular views.
Great training day.
Endomondo stats:
total miles ran - 12.65 miles
minimum altitude - 96 feet
maximum altitude - 1582 feet
minimum altitude - 96 feet
maximum altitude - 1582 feet
total ascent - 2080 feet
total descent - 2073 feet
