Climb every mountain. Or at least every other mountain.

Distance: 8.74 km

Time: 1:05:55

This morning I set out to run up Black Mountain.

Predictably, I got lost.

I think I was supposed to follow the road a bit longer before turning onto the trail uphill, but I had no idea where I was going. I ran up a really steep, really narrow path, trying not to trip over on the loose gravel and fall flat on my face. I was keeping an eye out for Black Mountain Tower, which I hoped would be nearby. But then I got to a high point at which I could see past the trees. And I looked over at the other mountain. And there was the tower.

Fail.

Okay, so it wasn’t really another mountain. It was another part of the same mountain. But it was a high part of the mountain, and in order to get there I’d have to climb down the half of the mountain I was on. Rather than get even more lost, I turned around and headed back. I had to walk down because the loose gravel was terrifying.

I’ll definitely try running the mountain again at some time in the future, but if the real trail is as scary as the trail I took today, I probably won’t do it again.