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Author Topic: Seeking opinions on this marathon course...  (Read 3023 times)
Snowy
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« on: April 18, 2010, 03:19:36 pm »

This is a new marathon course I am considering for fall.  Winthrop Marathon in central Washington State
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qKXLFEhZsz8/S52ArvEC8YI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/IKKNi2K622o/s1600-h/winthropmarathonfullprofile.jpg.

I am pretty lousy at judging courses by their elevation profile and would appreciate any opinions about this one.  Quad pulverizer or fun and fast?  (fyi, I do train on hills daily and am not a heel striker.)   Thanks a lot.
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Jon Allen
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 04:00:11 pm »

If you train properly for long downhills, and make sure you don't go out too fast, you should be fine on this.  It's all about training.
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 11:17:34 am »

Those hills at the end do not look fun.  In fact, they look down right rotten.
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Sasha Pachev
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2010, 10:23:32 am »

Looks very similar to Top of Utah. Maybe a bit faster. But elevation profiles are deceiving. You need to run the course to really know it. Nevertheless, from the looks of it you need to practice running fast on long downhill sections without getting beat up.
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