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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Brutal. Not Barkley, but certainly not Leadville or any other Ultra I can name. I regularly run the 4+ Miles of 15% up and down the lower parts of Pikes Peak, going to Barr Camp and back. Angel Fire makes those miles of 15% look like a Cake Walk! I kept trying to make more and more jokes to maintain positivity- You know, "It's fine except for the Piranah's and Quicksand, the Gators and Sleestaks..." it just kept getting more bizarre, until I was talking about a Wookie up there tearing runners limb from limb. Huge 15ft unclimbably steep switchbacks, that I slid down like a Cartoon, and tried again to climb. And then there was another, Like Deja Vu, then Deja Vu all over again. NO one finished the 100miler, 2 finished the 100K, and folks were finishing the 50miler in 19Hours, 21 Hours! It. Was. Nuts! I DARE you to come try this one, and I'm SO impressed with anyone who finished the 36.5mile "50K", or who spent 19-21 HOURS doing the 50miler. A few folks have finished the 100miler on previous
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