Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Current XC course at Canterbury

The Canterbury XC course features a tough 1.5 mile loop that is done twice with a little extra after the second loop to get close to 5km.  They started using this loop last fall and will probably keep using it.  It has a nice mix of cart path (dirt road), grass, and rough single-track trail.  It also has two tough little hills on the loop (so you get to do them twice) with a total of over 300’ of climb/descent.  It really hurts especially the second time around, climbing 80’ in .2 then dropping 40’ in .1 before the final gasser climbing back up 50’ in .1.  This is truly a great Cross-Country course.

 

I was hoping to run even splits this week and hopefully sneak under my time from May (20:26), I exceeded on both counts.  Here are my attempts on this course:

 

10/15/21 – (didn’t run all out with 2 days until XC nationals) 10:21 & 10:21 – 20:42

10/23/21 – 9:48 & 9:54 – 19:52

05/14/22 – 10:00 & 10:14 – 20:26

09/16/22 – 10:15 (course was just 1 loop with about 400 meters before we did the loop)

10/15/22 – 10:20 & 10:16 – 20:36

10/22/22 – 10:02 & 9:58 – 20:13

 


 

 

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