3:30am start time, got light as I left the road. Filled up 3L at the spring, made good time up to 7500’, bumbled around and lost the social trail, found it again at 8500’. Moved well from that point on, and hit the summit in 4:43 (a few min faster than both Sam and Brett’s splits).
Kept the effort fairly casual on the way down until I realized I was falling behind pace so hammered the last 20min to the spring. Chugged some water and slammed a few salt pills and a caffeine pill, and got to the road needing to run the final 8.5mi in 61minutes to get the FKT (~7:10/mi). Was averaging under 6:30s most of the way, but backed off in the last 2-3mi as it began to get uncomfortably hot, but had enough of a buffer by that point the FKT was never in doubt.
Second time doing this route but I don’t think the last…I want to get this time near/under 7hrs. Definitely possible for me to shave a lot of time by cleaning things up.