The xTERRA redwood 17k is a butt kicker... Total Ascent 3147 Descent 3127 (according to Mozzers garmin). Mile 8 has just over 1000 of that!! They tell you that it's a doozie, but it's a ReAL Doozie... Perfect temps. Flew out to San Fran with Gdoc and HD to hang with Mozzer in his hood and hit this trail run. It's part of the xterra Nor Cal Trail series. They did a nice job running the race and had it marked really well, well except for gdoc, but I'll let him blogo about that... Started off way to fast hit the first mile in just over 7 minutes. Which without a proper warmup is death in a race with so much technical elevation gain and loss in such a short distance. Another 1000 ft climb is between miles 4-5 - I started overheating a bit and getting lower back pain, so I backed way off.. This is where Mozzer caught me and never looked back... We all had a great race and would recommend this to anyone out this way... | 