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The starting gun for Camino Largo y Sinuoso was fired at 9:30 a.m. and we left El Zarco heading towards Contreras. The race course takes most of Desierto de los Leones’ main dirt road, passing along many beautiful places in the middle of the forest and climbing up to Cerro San Miguel, then going down to 4to Dínamo (a trad climbing area we visit a few times per year) and all the way back to El Zarco. Total distance for the roundtrip was 34 km with a total elevation gain of ~1,650 meters. A good endurance test!

Despite having restarted formal training about a month ago (when Mokka started to run), I felt relatively comfortable with the run, trying to avoid an excessive effort and focusing on saving energy and enjoying the trail. I logged a total time of 4:56:44 and arrived to the finish line with a big smile in my face, just ready to celebrate with a tasty lunch with all of my friends. I love this races

My race pictures can be seen here.

The climb went really well, even though we had to aid her to get across some rock scrambling sections (she’s not tall enough yet for long jumps). The altitude hit on her as she started to look really tired & sleepy just before reaching the summit. When we started the descent into the crater, her paws hurt so much from rock scrambling that she stopped for rest at every possible opportunity. Once we arrived to one of the lagoons, she didn’t hesitated to jump into the cold water. She seemed to recover almost instantly and everything was joy.

The rest of the pictures can be seen here.

Once back at the cars, we dropped the dogs back at home and headed for a huge lunch at some mexican food restaurant in Tlalnepantla’s downtown.

All of the pictures can be seen here.

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We did a little bit longer run of almost 5 km along my usual training course. Mokka seemed to enjoy the “game” once again, however, I think she imagined it would be of the same duration as 3 days ago. The last couple of kilometers she went into “follow” mode, being able to finish the run but really tired. She drank a full liter of water after it.

We went for a coffee to Coyoacán and had a fun time as always. Mokka stayed calm for the rest of the trip, not sad, only truly exhausted. We’re going to stick with 3-5 km runs until she builds out enough endurance to finish such distance in a better shape.

Of course her excitement didn’t last for long, after 1 km of non-stop running, she quit biting the leash (like most dogs with “a character”, she thinks that the lead is hers while she does that) and started focusing on looking on the road ahead and going by my side rather than jumping all around.

Then, by the 2nd kilometer, she started to slow down and continuously looked at me as if asking if that “game” was going to end soon. It was really funny to look at her face, so full of concern

We stopped at the same place where we started and she seemed really relieved of the fact. She was tired but kind of excited about the new “game” we just played. We quietly walked back home not without the usual visit to her dog friends along the street.