Mount Charleston Training Run

As some of you know, I am training for the Leadville 100 Ultramarathon in August. Check out my fundraising site at www.firstgiving.com/michaelveltman. Today's training run was a mixture of high altitude training and hill training all-in-one. Today's run started out at 8,400 ft and went to 10,000 ft. Total elevation change for today's run was 9,500 ft.

Looking over Mt. Charleston at 10,000 feet around mile 3.

Cliff edge off of Mt. Charleston.

Taking a break after 4 hours of running at 9,400 feet looking over the backside of Mt. Charleston.

Griffith Peak

The beginning of Griffith Peak, 8350 ft

Cujo, cooling off in the shade along the route. Temperature on the route was about 80 degrees, still to warm for his style.
Cujo on top of one of the lookout points overseeing Mount Charleston, 9400 ft, at the halfway point (2.7 miles). Unfortunetly this had to be the turn around point due to Cujo overheating and drinking up all the water.