This was a great 2-lap course. Normally those words would never come out of my mouth, but it surprisingly worked here. With a nice downhill start it was easy to … MORE
This was a great 2-lap course. Normally those words would never come out of my mouth, but it surprisingly worked here. With a nice downhill start it was easy to get the pace quickly up on this cold and windy morning. This was a small intimate race but the RD cared about feedback like he was running an outfit 30 time this size. The course itself I can’t speak of highly enough. After the downhill start there were 4 creek crossings (small ones, but still nice change from the norm), a couple of long hills in the middle of the course (and passing a great pond early in the lap) and the final maybe half a mile was a windy flat stretch to the finish, which incidentally was not blocked by the topography so you could see the finish line nearing from a ways out as extra push. While I do technically have a race tomorrow so it was not my last of the season, I think this would be a great race to close out the year on. I will certainly be back next year. Note, this course is on a working farm/ranch. It is not a road race or a typical trail race. Soil conditions were frozen nicely for the first lap but thawed to mud. I keep extra bags in my car for just such an occasion but keep that in mind when you’re deciding how you’re driving home with 3lbs of mud caked on there otherwise.
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This was a great 2-lap course. Normally those words would never come out of my mouth, but it surprisingly worked here. With a nice downhill start it was easy to … MORE
This was a great 2-lap course. Normally those words would never come out of my mouth, but it surprisingly worked here. With a nice downhill start it was easy to get the pace quickly up on this cold and windy morning. This was a small intimate race but the RD cared about feedback like he was running an outfit 30 time this size. The course itself I can’t speak of highly enough. After the downhill start there were 4 creek crossings (small ones, but still nice change from the norm), a couple of long hills in the middle of the course (and passing a great pond early in the lap) and the final maybe half a mile was a windy flat stretch to the finish, which incidentally was not blocked by the topography so you could see the finish line nearing from a ways out as extra push. While I do technically have a race tomorrow so it was not my last of the season, I think this would be a great race to close out the year on. I will certainly be back next year. Note, this course is on a working farm/ranch. It is not a road race or a typical trail race. Soil conditions were frozen nicely for the first lap but thawed to mud. I keep extra bags in my car for just such an occasion but keep that in mind when you’re deciding how you’re driving home with 3lbs of mud caked on there otherwise.