I had been eyeing this route for some time, and finally decided to go for it as a last hurrah to summer! I had an amazing support crew, with two snack/water refills, one on Basin and one on Marcy, as well as pacers, one half way to lake colden and up Algonquin, and another friend meeting me at the top of the Avalanche pass trail. I even was lucky enough to run into a new trail friend (a previous Bob FKT holder!!) who ran with me from Saddleback to Marcy! Amazing crew to help make my day better!
The day itself was perfect temperatures, nice and cool, with some cloud coverage. The trails were wet from a rain storm the previous day but to my surprise, both saddleback cliffs and gothics cable route were dry which I was most anxious about. I made pretty good time to skylight but started to fall off a bit time wise on the trail down to Lake Colden (it’s never as easy as I think it’s going to be). I really started to feel it on the slog up Algonquin and threw my goal time out the window. My pep came back heading down Algonquin but heading up Mt. Jo was hard (nice touch, Bob).
Overall, it was an amazing and hard day in the mountains and I feel lucky to be out there!