Notes
Warmest morning yet, sun was quite hot and some wind heading out towards Brown's Ranch. Ran the mountain trail which stops about 150 feet short of the peak of Brown's mountain. Last 500m are at about a 17% grade, narrow and rocky switchbacks, pace slowed close to 7:00 at this point. Was very difficult and no way I could have continued to the peak. Ran down the backside of the mountain, took it real slow as it was steep and rocky (might have actually gone up faster than I descended, the trickiness of the descent kept my heart rate elevated though) and then ran the trails around Cone Mountain which were much narrower than Brown's Ranch trail and were constantly going up and down, very difficult to maintain a steady rhythm but much more fun and challenging to run.
Some splits up the mountain:
4.43 835 23:17
4.67 842 24:37 (5:33, 2.9%)
4.84 852 25:37 (5:53, 5.9%)
5.07 868 26:57 (5:48, 7.0%)
5.39 912 28:57 (6:15, 13.8%)
5.56 952 30:12 (7:21, 23.5%)