13km

Race strategy

Short race: go all out.

• Hold your race pace up to the aid station at 7.9km, but stay in control.
• Ease into the early runnable section, then run your race pace, and go all out on the final descent from 7.9km.
• Start · 0.0km–2.1km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Work · 2.1km–7.9km · Climb of 252m, high point 245m. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Home · 7.9km–12.8km · Descent of 322m averaging 7%. Kick for the line: give it everything you've got.

Course

The course climbs 527m+. With 41m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 23% of the distance is uphill, 31% downhill and 45% flat. The longest climb runs 1.9km at an average 13.5% grade (252m of vertical). The longest descent runs 4.9km at an average 6.5% grade (322m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 19.3% over 0.9km. The steepest descent drops at 23.9% over 0.3km. Surface: 46% trail, 31% road, and 20% technical. Flat-equivalent effort: 18.3 FlatKM.

Summits

The course also passes close to Debela glavica (123m).

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 1.4km of pole-friendly terrain.

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 8 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 7.9km.
• 7.9–12.8 km · 322 m D−, -6.5% · 0.0 km ahead → free

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 15°C to 23°C, with around 18°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 32%. Heavy rain of 10.0mm or more falls on about 8% of days around this date.