This coming Saturday, I’ll test myself at the Jupiter Peak Steeplechase in Park City, Utah.  This race is a whopping 16 miles with about 4000′ of elevation gain on prime PC singletrack.  I’ve run it before in a little over 2 hours.  I don’t plan on racing real hard, just trying to put in a good 16 miler over the weekend.  Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been running big miles with big vertical.  For the locals here in SLC, that means running over the 11,326′ Pfieferhorn in Little Cottonwood Canyon and connecting Bells Canyon on the backside of Hogum Fork.  I had a brief stop with 14 mountain goats on the ridge.  Old Billie said he’s been watching me, and expects me to go for number 7 at the Wasatch 100 next month.   We’ll see about that as the competition is pretty stiff with Mr. Western, ( Koerner ) Mr. HURT, [...]