I ran the Manitou Incline on Monday, March 30. It's not often I get to go down there, but I had some errands to run in that area of Colorado Springs, so arranged my eating around a gap in time that would allow me to run it.
I had a previous effort last year, and did fairly well at it, but I knew that with all my recent training on Quandary, including several PR's there, that I could do a PR on the Manitou Incline Climb.
Facebook Video at the top of the Manitou Incline:
PR on the Manitou Incline - actually 11 of them according to Strava. Felt great. Up the new Incline then booked it down the new connector to the Barr Trail. Loved it. Elbrus Race 2015? How about the Inner Circle?
Posted by Seven Summits Body on Monday, March 30, 2015
I didn't realize at the time that I'd set 11 PR's. DOH! Strava allows you to create a "Segment" and make it public,so there are a lot of unnecessary and probably meaningless segments on the Incline. The most important two, to me, are the Bottom Step to Top Step, and the Barr Descent.
For the ascent I shaved 3 minutes off my previous best. That's quite a bit for what amounts to a tad over 3/4 mile. On the way down though, I chopped off 15 minutes. Dang! That's an amazing amount of time. I am not very fast on the way down. I have been training the down at home and on Quandary. On Quandary I worked on my descent PR and have been hitting it fairly regularly. It helped a lot on the Incline.
My stats are down below the scenery pics here, from Movescount and Strava, if you're interested. I'm going to put together an article analyzing what this all means in the big picture.
One, it's encouraging for my Elbrus Race 2015 training, since I'm coming in at such a high level compared to previous years.
Two, I think I have something important to share with all of you, and my Inner Circle Training Group. Subscribe to the NEWSLETTER HERE and I'll let you know the details as I formulate them.
Some pics from the Manitou Incline and Barr Trail:
Some Stats Screenshots from Movescount (Suunto) and Strava:
Note: The heart rates on the way up, with the high and low, fast and slow zones but still maintaining a relatively high HR. Then there is the pause as I rested and shot the video above. Then see how high I was able to keep my HR on the descent of the Barr Trail. That was pretty fun, actually, but ended up being difficult to recover from.
Note: The top speed on the descent of 6.9 MPH. Over an hour in HR Zone 4 (Very Hard). The "Recovery Time" of 31 hours, which is actually quite low for an effort like this.
Here are some stats pages, in case you want to see the maps, heart rate, etc. for yourself.
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