{"id":206,"date":"2013-11-12T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professorontherun.wordpress.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T19:46:12","slug":"first-early-morning-run-city-creek-to-ensign-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"First Early Morning Run, City Creek to Ensign Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fitting in a good trail run is tough when you have a family that A. Demands your time; and B. With whom you really want to spend quality time.\u00a0 The most obvious solution is to run at times when I would otherwise not be spending with family.\u00a0 Or, when I would otherwise be sleeping.\u00a0 I decided to try out waking up early and hitting a trail with a headlamp.\u00a0 I am 100% an evening workout type of guy.\u00a0 Waking up early to work out sounds miserable, and any time I have tried to institute such a policy, it usually doesn’t even make it to day 1.\u00a0 The alarm goes off and I balk. But, I thought that going on a trail run might just be FUN enough to get me out of bed.<\/p>\n

I was right.<\/p>\n

I awoke early, and rather than running a local trail, coming home to shower, and then driving down to work in bad rush-hour traffic, I decided to drive down to City Creek Canyon, near where I work, doing a run in the pre-dawn morning and then showering at work.\u00a0 I borrowed a headlamp from my neighbor, and hit the trail at 6:00 AM.\u00a0 I went up the trail on the NW side of City Creek Canyon, looped it West and eventually around to Ensign Peak and back.<\/p>\n

7.2 miles @ 13:01 min\/mile with 1,584 ft. elevation.<\/a>
\nIt was one of the funnest runs I have done.<\/p>\n

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