42km

Race strategy

Start easy, build your effort, and go all out at the finish.

• Start easy and control your HR up to 17.1km.
• Hold your race pace up to 20.4km, but stay in control.
• The finish is runnable. Save your legs to run it all the way.
• 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.
• Settle in · 2.6km–17.1km · Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Work · 17.1km–20.4km · Climb of 234m, high point 839m. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 20.4km–42.0km · 21.6km of runnable trail. No heroics: settle back into your own effort and hold it to the line. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.

Course

The course climbs 1100m+. With 26m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 29% of the distance is uphill, 34% downhill and 37% flat. The longest climb runs 3.4km at an average 6.9% grade (234m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 17.4% over 0.2km. Surface: 99% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 51.5 FlatKM.

Poles

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

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 10 of 100): a few descents worth noting, none of them decisive.

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 13°C to 22°C, with around 20°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 47%. Heavy rain of 10.0mm or more falls on about 9% of days around this date.