Saturday, December 21st

10mi*/1:26 - Mt. Ascutney with Ferenc, Lena and Ellie.  Great run.  There was a few inches of slushy snow on the auto road, it slowed us down a bit, but we had ok traction on it.  I felt good on the climb and was really enjoying the run.  We hit miles of 12:12, 12:40, 12:33 and 8:37(.7mi) to the parking lot for a time of 45:58.  We ran to the summit on the trail in 11:09.  We climbed the tower and hung out on top for a bit.  The dogs even climbed the tower!  Once we got to the parking lot on the way down we decided to cruise pretty fast.  The snow seemed to cushion our legs and we were able to descend quickly.  We did the 3.7mi down in 5:14(.7mi), 5:42, 5:35, and 4:59.  It was fun to break 5min on the last mile.  I want to go back a few more times this winter to do this run again.