Sub 8

I finally broke 8 minutes for the mile. Of course it helps when the finish line is 300 feet lower than the start (5.7% grade). I ran one mile up the mountain in 14:20 with an average HR (heart rate) of 158 and I ran down the mountain in 7:52 with an average HR of 141. My current PR (personal record) for running one mile up the mountain is 12:03. My goal is to get that under 10 minutes. I would also like to eventually be able to run the rest of the way up the mountain to Mosquito pass, but that will have to wait another month or so until the snow melts. That should be challenging since it gets steeper after the first mile, 3000 feet of elevation gain in 7.5 miles (7.6% average grade) and there is a lot less oxygen up there.