I will knock out a 2-2.5 hour night run tonight, probably on something easy to plan like the mineral belt around town. Then run camp starts on Saturday. Packet Pick Up and a dinner are tomorrow night, so we'll all have a chance to get to know one another before taking off down the trail on Saturday morning.
You can take a look at the map that is attached (the first one has Day 1 and Day 3 on it). We are basically knocking out the first leg of the race. There are 13.5 miles from town, around Turquoise Lake to the Mayqueen campground. That part is a lot of road, and the lake trail is mostly rolling to flat area.
So we will start at Mayqueen, run up the road less than a mile I think, and hop on the Timberline Trail. We will run over Sugarloaf, then hit some dirt roads, then we will get on the Pipeline, and eventually follow the Colorado Trail all the way to Twin Lakes. This will effectively be a marathon on the trail.
Day 2 is set up to be a 20 mile from Twin Lakes, up and over Hope Pass, to the Winfield aid station, and then back to Twin Lakes. It really will be whatever you want it to be. Some people will choose not to run all the way to Winfield since is basically 4 miles of dirt road running. As of now, I want to get the miles in for training, so I will probably do the whole thing, unless I just feel like total crap after coming up and over Hope Pass (12,260 feet). See the attachment below.
Day 3 is a night run on Monday night. It is only 10 miles, and it is basically to get some practice on the actual course running at night. We will run from Twin Lakes to Treeline at night. This will be a nice day since we will have all day Monday to rest.
It should be some good on course training, and hopefully there will be some interesting folks to meet along the way.
These 3 days sound interesting and useful to your training program.
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