Red Race

Race strategy

Run easy on the first mountain, then go all out on the second.

• Start easy and control your HR up to Srednji Povlen.
• Hold your race pace up to Mali Povlen, but stay in control.
• All downhill to the finish: go all out!
• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 20.3km.
• Start · 0.0km–2.3km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Settle in · 2.3km–13.8km · Plus 1 more climb. Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Work · 13.8km–20.3km · Climb of 318m, high point 1334m. Plus 1 more descent. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 20.3km–25.3km · Descent of 390m averaging 8%. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course. Long descent: keep it even and let go only near the end.

Course

By gradient, 35% of the distance is uphill, 43% downhill and 22% flat. The longest climb runs 5.0km at an average 6.2% grade (313m of vertical). The longest descent runs 5.0km at an average 7.8% grade (390m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 22.4% over 0.4km. The steepest descent drops at 26.7% over 0.3km. Surface: 69% smooth, 26% trail, and 5% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 28.4 FlatKM.

Summits

The highest summit on the course is Mali Povlen (1346m), 20.3km from the start. Other named summits along the route: Srednji Povlen (1301m).

Poles

The course is runnable enough that trekking poles are not needed.

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 13 of 100): a few descents worth noting, none of them decisive.

• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 20.3km.
• 20.3–25.3 km · 390 m D−, -7.8% · 0.0 km ahead → even, let go at the end