Ramne Trail

Race strategy

Short race: go all out.

• Hold your race pace up to 3.2km, but stay in control.
• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 3.2km.
• Start · 0.0km–2.9km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Work · 2.9km–3.2km · Plus 1 more climb. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 3.2km–9.3km · Descent of 347m averaging 6%, high point 996m. Kick for the line: give it everything you've got.

Course

The course climbs 250m+. With 25m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 34% of the distance is uphill, 36% downhill and 29% flat. The longest climb runs 3.2km at an average 7.3% grade (230m of vertical). The longest descent runs 6.2km at an average 5.6% grade (347m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 11.7% over 2.0km. The steepest descent drops at 24.1% over 0.3km. Surface: 46% trail, 35% road, and 14% smooth.

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.

• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 3.2km.
• 3.2–9.3 km · 347 m D−, -5.6% · 0.0 km ahead → free