{"id":829,"date":"2015-09-24T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2015-09-24T20:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T01:27:28","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again-monster-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s that time of year again \u2013 Monster time"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those new to the Monster \u2013 it\u2019s a 100 miler on the Mogollon Rim in Northern Arizona.\u00a0 This hundred is normally 106 miles but\u00a0this year it\u2019s 107, as one of the trails was re-routed.\u00a0 This is my 3rd<\/sup> year running it.\u00a0 I finished in 35.5 hours in 2013. \u00a0In 2014, I only made 44 miles since the race was called due to severe weather.\u00a0 No chance of that this year since the weather will be sunny and warm (a little too warm).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve followed the same\u00a0 routine every year.\u00a0 Last night I flew into Phoenix, spent the night in Flagstaff, climbed Mt Humphreys this morning, and are now in Payson, AZ \u2013 11 miles from the start.\u00a0\u00a0 There was beautiful weather for the climb this morning.\u00a0 I added a few pictures below.\u00a0\u00a0 It was my first outing in 2 weeks after twisting my ankle during a training run.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been very cautious to not exert it since it was very swollen and discolored.\u00a0\u00a0 I was cautious thins morning making sure that I didn\u2019t strain it.\u00a0 I tried out my new poles.\u00a0 The result was an uneventful climb and decent, but I was 20 minutes slower than the past years.\u00a0 I\u2019ve determined that poles slow me down so I\u2019m only taking one of them on the race for the later legs when I\u2019ll need the extra stability.<\/p>\n

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After showering, my ankle showed a lot of pretty colors.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t hurt and it\u2019s not swollen so I think it may be the old blood draining.\u00a0\u00a0 As a precaution, I iced it for 30 minutes.\u00a0 I added a picture of that for the viewing pleasure of Mike V since he squealed like a 16 year old girl just sticking a toe in ice after he completed the Leadville 100.<\/p>\n

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For those new to the Monster \u2013 it\u2019s a 100 miler on the Mogollon Rim in Northern Arizona.\u00a0 This hundred is normally 106 miles but\u00a0this year it\u2019s 107, as one of the trails was re-routed.\u00a0 This is my 3rd year running it.\u00a0 I finished in 35.5 hours in 2013. \u00a0In 2014, I only made 44 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mogollon-monster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skelmo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}