Ski day #17 for the season (4th in a row). Legs were a little tired, so I just skied moderately for about 100 minutes.
Run: With Holly. Didnt' get out until right around midnight. Wanted to avoid the poison gas that we have to breathe outside, so I stuck to the upper aves and ran pretty close to an exact loop of the perimeter. A little over 9 miles with nearly 1500' of gain, a little under 9:00 pace (8:55 pace correlated to 8:15 effort on flat, so quite easy effort). Perimeter was pretty complete other than an offshoot of Terrace Hills Drive and a small loop off of Capital Park (the latter a gated private community that I couldn't run even if I wanted to). I'm sure the air is still quite bad up there, but at least the visible smog line was lower in the valley than where I was running.
On a note related to air quality, I've been coughing constantly, despite not being sick, ever since getting back to Utah. My lungs feel simply awful. At this point, I've never been more excited to finish my PhD and move to a place where the government won't put more effort into selecting a state gun than solving an extreme health crisis that affects millions of people.
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