Stairs, hills, and more hills. About 9,000 feet of vertical packed into 28 miles.
Within a few hundred yards of the start, the course heads up three flights of stairs as tall as a fifty-story building, and up some more through an old horse ranch to Windy Gap. Then it plunges down into Muir Woods, across Redwood Creek, and begins a tough grind up through both trees and grasslands over trail sections named "Dynamite", "The Hogsback", "The Rainforest", and "Cardiac." At the top of Cardiac, the course levels out with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean before it plunges down over the rocks, roots, and stairs of "Steep Ravine" and the discouragingly steep but short climb up "Insult Hill." Finally, as the course follows the relatively gentle slope of The Moors toward the ocean, Stinson Beach is in sight a mile ahead. A much needed rest, if you call it that!
Once to Stinson, you turn around and head back to Old Mill Park in Mill Valley following the same course.
And then do it all over again for the QUAD to add insult to injury!!

 

Copyright 2023 UjENA Swimwear · Site Map · Feedback · Tell A Friend · Nominate a Race
Leaderboard · UjENA 5K · Double Road Race · UjENA Jam · UjENA Network