Sunday, April 3, 2011

Trying to figure out the course

I spent some time with Google Earth today trying to figure out what the course really looks like.

Here's my best guess of what the track will be based on the rather crappy drawing on the Tough Mudder website. This weighs in at 8.5mi and with 3074ft of elevation gain - i know they claim 4200' of elevation gain, but I can't figure out where I'm wrong. (It's possible that if you went out and walked this with a GPS that you'd get a lot more gain because the uncertainty in elevation measurements).





And as if that doesn't look bad enough, here's what I think the elevation profile looks like:


Looks like a few pretty tough uphill runs (kicking things off with a mile up a 1 in 5 slope) but there are a few breathers in there too.

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