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The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer

4.6km·1105m+
September 10
Big Sky,
United States
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The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer · Race profile

Distance
4.6km
Gain
1105m+
Max
3393m
Min
2295m

About The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer

The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer is the 4.6km vertical kilometre at The Rut Mountain Runs 2027 (Big Sky, United States). The race starts on September 10, 2027. It starts in Big Sky and finishes in Lone Peak summit.

Race strategy

Short race: go all out.

  • Steep 54% wall. Control your pace and stay focused.
  • High point at 3393m. Control your HR at altitude.
  • Control your HR on the first climb.
  • Start · 0.0km–1.4km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
  • Home · 1.4km–4.4km · Climb of 1099m, high point 3393m. Kick for the line: give it everything you've got. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace. At altitude your pace drops, and that's fine. Hike the steepest pitches.

Course

The course climbs 1105m+. With 240m/km of climbing, the course is exceptionally steep, with long hiking-grade sections. By gradient, 100% of the distance is uphill, 0% downhill and 0% flat. The longest climb runs 4.4km at an average 24.9% grade (1099m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 53.6% over 0.5km.

Summits

The highest summit on the course is Lone Mountain (3397m), 4.4km from the start.

Poles

Trekking poles are strongly recommended: about 4.1km of the course is steep enough for them to pay off.

Quad damage

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

This page has a pacing and nutrition planner, a gradient matrix, an interactive elevation profile and historical weather for The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer.

Other distances of The Rut Mountain Runs 2027The Rut Mountain Runs 50k (50.0km)·The Rut Mountain Runs 28k (28.0km)·The Rut Mountain Runs 21k (21.0km)·The Rut Mountain Runs 11k (11.0km)

Other editions of The Rut Mountain Runs Lone Peak Vertical Kilometer2026·2025

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