MY13

Race strategy

Run the climb at race pace, build your speed on the downhill, and go all out at the finish.

• Start easy and control your HR up to 6.1km.
• Final 333m descent. Save your legs to go all out on it.
• Control your HR on the first mountain, and go all out on the final descent from 6.1km.
• Start · 0.0km–1.4km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Settle in · 1.4km–6.1km · Plus 1 more climb. Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 6.1km–13.8km · Descent of 333m averaging 4%, high point 323m. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course.

Course

The course climbs 382m+. With 27m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 25% of the distance is uphill, 17% downhill and 59% flat. The longest climb runs 6.1km at an average 4.5% grade (273m of vertical). The longest descent runs 7.8km at an average 4.3% grade (333m of vertical). The steepest climb averages 15.3% over 1.1km. The steepest descent drops at 21.0% over 0.5km.

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 1.1km of pole-friendly terrain.

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 6.1km.
• 6.1–13.8 km · 333 m D−, -4.3% · 0.0 km ahead → free