Run Rabbit Run training weeks eight through eleven

Week eight began in Glacier National Park and week eleven finished in Steamboat Springs. 51 hours, 47 minutes all training 116 miles running and hiking 16,903 ft D+ running and hiking Hiking with my oldest kid in Glacier and Grand Teton Nation Parks was one of the highlights of this year. Arabelle has become a strong hiker (summiting nine of Colorado's fourteeners this summer) and is great company on the trail. A sprawling four-story wooden lodge on the edge of a greenish lake with big peaks in the background. July in Fort Collins was characterized by exceptional heat and miserable air quality. Particles from smoky wildfires upstream and ozone derived from fuel pumps and gas wells locally are making smog a permanent feature of summer on the Front Range of Colorado. It's nice to be able to escape to the mountains to escape the heat and ozone. The feet of a white man soaking in a small alpine lake under a rugged mountain and fields of summer snow. I tried a new kind of running event in…