Saturday morning, Ami and I got to run 9 miles down Big Cottonwood Canyon together, and it was awesome! I am so looking forward to Ami and her husband moving back to Salt Lake so I can run with her more often. We started our run at about 7:30am, and from where we started, we could see snow in the mountains, and it was about 34 degrees. Typically when I run the canyon, I tend to start out pretty fast, and then from there my pace kind of pops up and down from there. I loved running this canyon with Ami for so many reasons, but one of the running-related reasons is that we started out a little slower for our first two miles, and then increased our pace each mile thereafter. I think this was my first run where every mile was faster than the previous mile (except those two seconds on mile 8, but I'm not counting them). It felt great, and I never felt the need to walk or like I was pushing too hard to warm up or get moving at the beginning. And we still averaged 9:48/mile overall. Now I need to learn how to create that pacing for myself!
A couple miles down the road, we saw a couple of moose across the river. I was glad they were a little bit off the road, as it looked like it was probably a female with her calf. Although the leaves are changing up in the mountains, both Ami and were expecting them to have changed a bit more, especially considering how far up the canyon we started. The scenery was still absolutely beautiful, though, and we enjoyed every minute of the run. I couldn't believe it was already over when we ran out of the mouth of the canyon, and was wishing that we could do it all over again. Thanks for the run, Ami, and hope to see you again very soon!
Here is our run in an awesome photo collage! Don't mind the duplicate of our splits... I was just really excited to share that separately too.
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