The elevation gain on the new run course is over 1.2k ft. The old course was less than 800ft of gain. That’s a huge increase - no concluding thoughts, just pretty blown away at how hilly this is going to be. That’s about what the gain is for 13 miles on Magnolia where Goucher famously held ~6:15 min/mile in a training run in Running With the Buffaloes. Sam held 5:19 min/mile in a training run.
I don’t have the book in front of me but pretty sure the famous run Goucher did on Mags was a 20 mile run at 5:20 pace. I’m sure he did some runs on it at 6:15 but those were probably his conversational paced runs
I had thought so too, so I revisited the book last year and all the book provided was that Goucher returned downhill at ~5:15 pace and provided a time for the entire run, which came out to ~6:15 pace. A good friend who was in the book/on the team/on that specific run said they may have crossed P2P and done some of West Mags that day…
let me just say, mags kicks my ass and if StG is on par, I personally am about to be humbled