Bay Green

Race strategy

Short race: go all out.

• Hold your race pace up to Grbašćak, but stay in control.
• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace.
• Start · 0.0km–2.6km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Work · 2.6km–7.7km · This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Home · 7.7km–10.6km · Climb of 113m, high point 146m. Kick for the line: give it everything you've got. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.

Course

The course climbs 450m+. With 41m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 24% of the distance is uphill, 40% downhill and 36% flat. The longest climb runs 2.9km at an average 3.8% grade (113m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 37.1% over 0.3km. Surface: 43% trail, 31% smooth, and 24% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 12.0 FlatKM.

Summits

The highest summit on the course is Grbašćak (152m), 7.9km from the start. The course also passes close to Strihina grba (67m).

Poles

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

Quad damage

There is too little runnable descent to damage the quads: plan the race around climbing and fuelling.

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 9°C to 14°C, with around 12°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 25%. Heavy rain of 10.0mm or more falls on about 5% of days around this date.