someone posted this in the facebook group…not sure about temperature…
“Water has mega warmed up. Swam at camp kitchen into fairy today at 5:30 am and had to let water into my wetsuit it was so warm! Enjoy sunday! It’ll be gorgeous!”
I drove the run course today… People arenâ€t going to be happy with the change. Shitty road surface, the course takes you out into the middle of nowhere, and yeah it’s hilly. I’d rather have the run back to Deerhurst!
I drove the run course today… People arenâ€t going to be happy with the change. Shitty road surface, the course takes you out into the middle of nowhere, and yeah it’s hilly. I’d rather have the run back to Deerhurst!
Suck it up, buttercup. It’s Muskoka. Of course it’s going to be hilly.
I was a naysayer in my previous post…
The run wasn’t too bad… Yes, hilly. Road conditions weren’t great, but were they weren’t great there wasn’t (almost no existent) traffic, so you could find good road to run on. Two negatives though… you are literally running to nowhere, nothing scenic, no crowd support… and running with traffic once you come back on to the road back to town, extremely tight with traffic.
The biggest plus was the ample aid stations, there were a lot! And running back into town was all downhill.
This was my forth straight year racing here. I’m definitely coming back for my fifth!
I was a naysayer in my previous post…
The run wasn’t too bad… Yes, hilly. Road conditions weren’t great, but were they weren’t great there wasn’t (almost no existent) traffic, so you could find good road to run on. Two negatives though… you are literally running to nowhere, nothing scenic, no crowd support… and running with traffic once you come back on to the road back to town, extremely tight with traffic.
The biggest plus was the ample aid stations, there were a lot! And running back into town was all downhill.
This was my forth straight year racing here. I’m definitely coming back for my fifth!
Well, running back into town was almost all downhill. Agree on the other comments. That run is now boring as all heck. Once out of town, it’s all mental focus and very little distractions (and shade) for that matter. That could have been ugly if the run took place two days earlier. It’s certainly reverting back to the run of earlier years which was much more challenging. That hill at 13K is no joke (down or up). Logistically, this run course is likely much easier on the local town folk, so I would expect they will continue with this for a while. I must say, running back into town was strange. There was absolutely no room for runners to be running both ways in the “runners lane” as one cop called it. So I found myself dodging incoming runners and cars. Congrats to all finishers. That course is legit…even if for some odd reason they pulled the bike turnaround point about 750m closer. This year I had it at 88.3K? Hard to mess up a 90K out and back where there is lot’s of road to make it bang on.