What an AWESOME place to run!   As planned, I flew to Las Angeles, met up with my buddies for the weekend and we drove the 8 or so hours to the Grand Canyon.   Everything went according to plan, and it was just a beautiful run.  I ended up not doing the full RIM2RIM2RIM and caught a ride back to the South Rim.  I’m not in the best shape, ran too fast to early, and was pretty fatigued by the time I reached the North Rim (about 24 or so miles).  I really didn’t care to run all the way back, much of it in the dark. It just seemed pretty pointless at the time, considering that I’d not be seeing the beautiful terrian  due to darkness.  

So rather than going back the same way, and probably end up doing of of those not-much-fun deathmarch’s, I ran from the South Rim to North Rim, and had a much better time going back around in the car, seeing some new sights,  having a (delicious) burger and a beer and enjoying the rest of the day.   ( it was about a 4 hour drive to get back to the South Rim)

Here is a short video, and the full picture gallery.  A GREAT run!

  Here is the full photo gallery, I don’t have captions yet but am working on it.  The easiest thing to do is click the SLIDESHOW tab, and sit back and enjoy the scenery, though the slide show pics are kind of small.  You can click the thumbnails to get larger pictures.

http://daveharperphotos.irun100s.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=131097

Enjoy!  I highly recommend the Grand Canyon!