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Race Reports for Pikes Peak Ascent 2017

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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Most difficult Half Marathon in America (according to HalfMarathons.net). Not just relentlessly uphill for 13+miles, but into increasingly less oxygen availability ending at 14,115ft. This double-whammy, along with the 1800 other folks trying to get to the top on the same, single-track trail, results in an "absurdly difficult", "for-multiple-reasons", challenge. Come get some. I promise, whatever "Plan" you think you have at the bottom, the joke I make near the top is, "That whole will to live thing, it's so over-rated." I'd plan on doing it 3 years in a row, just to try to get better at it, which is VERY difficult, so I keep doing it!
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