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Race Reports for Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile 2009

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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Too hard

  • Comments: I did not do well with the roots on this course but it really didn't appear to bother most. If you took away the roots then I would rate this course as easy but it is not a terain I am used to running. The race itself is great I just sucked in a particularly dramatic way that day.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This race was awesome! I highly recommend it to anyone! Great volunteers. They were vultures, just waiting for you to come into an aid station so that they could help you in some way. The aid stations had SO much food, anything you could imagine and if they didn't have it, well they had cooks that probably could have made it for you! This race is said to be one of the easier 100's. Now, like I said in my race report, I think that's because you don't have the climbing or harsh terrain that some of the other 100's might have where they almost become more hikes than runs. However, don't let it fool you, it's still 100 miles and in the end, this 'easy' course still go the best of me. They changed the course this year and I had thought nothing of it. However, the word from the veterans was this year was harder. The explanation that the winner made was that it was more single track and less jeep road this year. I had remembered looking at the old course map and it used to do an out
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