Doing the (North) Nasty and then some
uphill both ways Yassine of Animal Athletics decided to do one last long training run in preparation for his 3rd HURT 100 and invited a lot of the Portland trail running community to join him. His route was 4 loops of the "North Nasty", which is ~11 miles and 3000 feet of elevation gain. Look Susan does run uphill! Last year Animal Athletics did several group runs they called the " Nasty Series ", for one reason or another Susan and I weren't able to make any of the runs, well technically we tried to make one, but we were late. This time since Yassine was doing loops, we knew we could start any time and he would eventually catch up to (pass) us . We decided to do 1 loop of the North Nasty and add on an extra "easier" 9 miles to give us a good 20 miler. Found when we went down the wrong turn off on Skyline We really enjoyed seeing so many people running the route and chatting with everyone, even if was just passing and sayin...