Friday, March 11, 2005
I posted a query about Around the Bay on BuffaloRunners.com and got some chilling feedback. This is the best:
"I'll keep it simple for you. This is a course in which you have to experience at least two times before you improve on it. The first 15k is a free-bee. That's the way I look at it. You are practially given the first 15K. At around the 20K mark, you will get slow and gradually rolling hills as the course heads towards the residential area.
For the next four to five miles, you will be experiencing some impressive hills. None that cannot be handled if you let the first 15K serve its purpose. Mile 16 is the most difficult. You will have a very large downhill. When you are at this section, my best advice to you is to use every bit of what that downhill is worth. You will need the momentum to use for the final hill of Around the Bay.
This hill is a monster. It will test you for all that you are made up of and it will slow you down about 3/4's of the way up. My advice is to maintain leg turnover and shorten your stride at this point. Once you get to the top, there will be a left turn towards Hamilton, where the rest of the course will be downhill. It is noticable as well. Your legs will feel it. Just let gravity do the work for you at this point.
Hope that this helps."
Yeah, that helps.
"I'll keep it simple for you. This is a course in which you have to experience at least two times before you improve on it. The first 15k is a free-bee. That's the way I look at it. You are practially given the first 15K. At around the 20K mark, you will get slow and gradually rolling hills as the course heads towards the residential area.
For the next four to five miles, you will be experiencing some impressive hills. None that cannot be handled if you let the first 15K serve its purpose. Mile 16 is the most difficult. You will have a very large downhill. When you are at this section, my best advice to you is to use every bit of what that downhill is worth. You will need the momentum to use for the final hill of Around the Bay.
This hill is a monster. It will test you for all that you are made up of and it will slow you down about 3/4's of the way up. My advice is to maintain leg turnover and shorten your stride at this point. Once you get to the top, there will be a left turn towards Hamilton, where the rest of the course will be downhill. It is noticable as well. Your legs will feel it. Just let gravity do the work for you at this point.
Hope that this helps."
Yeah, that helps.
