Stage Rd is Finally Flowing!

Todays run-

4.7 miles
710 ft of elevation gain

22 creek crossings!!!!

There was some serious fartleking from creek crossing to creek crossing, and it took longer than any 4.7 miler should take, but that's a heck of a lot of creek crossings to cram into 4.7 miles. It was basically run hard from crossing to crossing, but slow down as you approach or you'd slide right in....but the creek was ripping through there!  I went out to the Burma cut up that we ran down during Brazen's Trail Challenge 10k.  I would have gone further, but the creek was up on the trail, and next to it the trail was under ankle deep mud so there was really no where to run.  This was the out and back area we did during Brazen's run...it's totally not recognizable right now. I'll put up pics later this evening, but it was really crazy.  All the reeds in the Pine Meadow area were laying down and had a creek flowing through them and across the trail.  There were lots of branches and boulders and debris on the trail...but oddly enough, other than right at the creek crossings, not much mud. Things were nice and compact.

I've been waiting months for the creek to fill....it delivered big time today!