Ouch!

I never really got going at the COSMIC Snowmass Winter Wild and ended up getting pulled and DNF'd at the top of the third climb. I guess the 1:15 wakeup took a bit of a toll after all ;) Course was a little boring compared to Sunlight with all the climbing up groomed runs with no sections into the trees or off piste. New heel lifts helped a lot but I just never felt warmed up and pretty much slogged my way up the skin track with many, many breaks. Rock Island descent was a little rocky and super short, Headwall/Wall One later on was so scraped at the top (and my legs were so cooked) that I sideslipped halfway down taking up a lot of time. Coming into view of the Maroon Bells at the top of the 3rd climb as the sun came out was cool though! I missed the Burnt Mtn cutoff by about 45min sounds like and ended up having to take 3 busses to get back to Aspen. Dave was the last finisher at 5:14, Cheese-O a couple ahead at 4:45 and I was out for about 4:45 as well...ouch. Oh well. About a month until Loveland so plenty of time to recoup/forget and train some more...