4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 3,068
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I'm pretty proud of this BEAST 5-miler. Here's a race profile. If you're familiar with cycling, I consider HUGE hills "hors categorie" climbs. Ones where you shuffle to the top, not running, really, just trying not to stop. There's 3 HC hills, one each in the first 3 miles.
The road in front of my house winds down into a river valley between two ridges, and the route climbs out of the valley up and over one ridge and back, then up and over the other one and back. Here's a look down our driveway. You can see across the road to the other ridge. We live at the top, so these are gentle hills.
A nice, gentle downhill start, into the valley. About a 1k warmup.
The next pic is from the bottom of HC1. I drew a circle around a yellow house you can barely see through the trees. The road switch-backs twice, curves around behind the house and finishes 250 meters beyond it to the right.
HC2 is steeper and, after a double switch-back, finishes behind the house you can see at the top of the hill (top of the hill is about even with the 2nd story level). The picture is NOT taken from the bottom of the hill since the roads curves.
HC3 is shorter and steeper than the others. Check out the telephone poll to get a perspective on steepness. And it's gentler at the top. Still, a quarter mile long, with 200 brutal meters at the bottom.
Pretty scenery. I see deer on about half my morning runs. And it's actually a benefit that most of the hills curve around in the trees. You can't see how far it is to the top!!
Gotta face the BEAST twice this week to stay on target. I'm running my VERY flat 3 miler tomorrow to rest up.
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