Les Chibottes - 20K

Race strategy

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

• Start easy and control your HR up to 14.4km.
• Hold your race pace up to 15.1km, 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–2.5km · Race-day nerves push your heart rate up: don't follow the crowd, find your own rhythm.
• Settle in · 2.5km–14.4km · Ease in: hold back more than feels necessary. The race is still ahead. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.
• Work · 14.4km–15.1km · Plus 1 more climb. This is where the race is built: steady, solid effort. Climb by heart rate or breathing, not pace.
• Home · 15.1km–27.7km · 12.5km of runnable trail, high point 894m. Build to the finish: leave whatever you have left out on the course. Running pays off here: run wherever you can.

Course

The course climbs 750m+. With 27m/km of climbing, this is a rolling, mostly runnable course. By gradient, 23% of the distance is uphill, 33% downhill and 45% flat. The longest climb runs 0.7km at an average 19.6% grade (141m of vertical). Surface: 51% trail, 29% smooth, and 17% road. Flat-equivalent effort: 36.4 FlatKM.

Poles

Poles bring little benefit here: only about 0.7km of pole-friendly terrain.

Quad damage

Quad damage risk is low (index 13 of 100): a few descents worth noting, none of them decisive.

Weather

On race day, start temperatures have historically ranged from 12°C to 24°C, with around 21°C at the highest point; the chance of precipitation is about 34%. Heavy rain of 10.0mm or more falls on about 5% of days around this date.