Did a 100 mile race in the hills around my home city. Organiser wanted a "sting in the tail", so threw in a massive 45% hill at the 155km mark up a range, then last 10k super super hilly on top of the range. Was going well until that hill and scrambling up it on my hands and knees at 2am in the morning. Definitely stung my tail
Pretty across the entire country stairs are 2:1 slopes (50%) for non habitable locations and 30-40 for habitable. So outside stairs (the ones you actually run) are steeper.
Manitou Incline on Pike’s Peak is very tough because you have to take the old cog railway ties and therefore cannot drop into short strides. I think it gains about 2000 feet in a mile (and the elevation is semi-high). I ran it in 19 something in the same year I won USATF trail 50, so was pretty fit. Matt Carpenter has done it in something like 18 low. Which is insane.
The Incline in Manitou Springs, CO...
Hate that damn thing
El Capitan. The shortest route.
I've traveled the world running trails all over the place. The most brutal trail i've seen is "The incline" in Colorado springs, its average 45% grade for a mile. Average finish times for 1 mile is well over an hour. Look it up.
Look up the elevation chart of the Hardrock 100 mile.
joecrunner wrote:
https://www.dir.ca.gov/title8/3231.htmlIdeal stairs are 30-37 degrees
degrees and % grade are different, though related. You need to use some trig
Barkley. Checkmate Hill. Have fun.
joecrunner wrote:
Around where I live, we have some cool maintained trails that average 25-35%. Even for top runners, it may be difficult or inefficient to maintain a running cadence, similar to certain ultras and mountain races.
What are some of your steep trails you like to do, or hate to do?
Check out the Grouse Grind on Grouse Mountain, Vancouver British Columbia. Something like 2800 feet in 2 miles if I recall correctly. Wicked steep
A Hannold wrote:
El Capitan. The shortest route.
The nose is not the shortest route on el cap... not by a long shot.
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