 all right here we are again i hope you can see me basically let me turn on this other light too new mountain mount evans this is a front range mountain 14er i've never done it this is my first time and i've lived in colorado my entire life unfortunately you can drive to the top of this one this one in pike's peak you can drive to the top i don't really like that but i'm not driving i am running i'm not gonna go fast i'm just gonna since it's my first time i'm enjoy it learn the trail and i'm about 15 20 miles from graze peak which you all know i've done quite a few times this this summer so this is good prep putting another tool in the toolbox for 14er training next summer by learning the trail this summer maybe slightly less elevation gain than graze and it's over a longer stretch of mileage graze is six miles to the top i believe this one is eight and a half so an additional eight nine two and a half miles to the top so it should be an easier grade not as steep and let's give her a go i will film a little bit today um bring you along for the journey love you all it's beautiful out nice morning here at echo lake lodge um let's go and smell the aspen stop and smell the aspen we up here getting snowy i'm gonna call it i hate doing it i'm at uh 13 500 feet so about 500 feet short of the summit but basically this is a long one it's eight and a half miles to the top from the car and uh i just don't have the time is a bottom line and i'm a little underdressed you just saw the snow uh it's time to wear pants in a full hat and extra gloves as i go out into the mountains moving forward so there's a lesson learned it was just it's getting chilly and there's i am looking at snow all around so anyway i'm gonna call it but i'll show you the top of mount evans i'll be back who knows maybe before the uh season ends with snow but uh good run i just basically i ran out of time uh i just i gotta get back to work is the bottom line so here it is i'm gonna go back down love you all you know sometimes you meet your goals sometimes you don't that's okay not too shabby not too shabby uh that is a muscle building run it is not a speed run that's for sure a lot of roots a lot of rocks to jump up um so if you're thinking about running mount evans uh just keep in mind that you're probably not going to go crazy fast um although i will make an fkt attempt on it at some point but uh today was not the day didn't bring enough warm clothes and didn't quite realize i think because of the roots and the rocks uh it wasn't too i mean it was steep at times but not like it was a nice grade so you could go decent speed but it's uh you can't just run like graze or pike speak or what have you so all right i gotta get back to work down the mountain let's go remember i asked on monday uh what are you looking forward to most this week well did it happen that's today's question of the day all right making a full circle so i asked that on monday today's friday um did it come true what did you what were you looking most forward to