https://briancurtin.com/enContents © 2021 <a href="mailto:brian@python.org">Brian Curtin</a> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png"/></a> Wed, 17 Feb 2021 02:22:43 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://briancurtin.com/articles/black-canyon-100k-2021-race-recap/Brian Curtin<figure><img src="https://briancurtin.com/images/black-canyon-2021/soap-creek.png"></figure> <div><p>"Net down­hill" is some­what syn­ony­mous with "fast". In road run­ning, there are reg­u­la­tions in place that lim­it how much drop a point-­to-­point course can have be­fore it be­comes in­valid for record pur­pos­es. Boston, a gen­er­al­ly fast marathon—­most­ly due to its qual­i­fi­ca­tion pur­pos­es—is aid­ed in its rel­a­tive speed due to a –447' net el­e­va­tion. It's <em>too</em> down­hill for records pur­pos­es. When Ge­of­frey Mu­tai ran 2:03:02 in 2011 it was the fastest marathon at the time, but not a world record.</p> <p>Trail run­ning is a dif­fer­ent sto­ry all to­geth­er. While trails vary wide­ly, they gen­er­al­ly fa­vor the up­hill. Black Canyon 100K is not like that.</p> <p>I un­der­es­ti­mat­ed it. Don't make that same mis­take.</p> <p><a href="https://briancurtin.com/articles/black-canyon-100k-2021-race-recap/">Read more…</a> (22 min remaining to read)</p></div>100Kblack canyonracestrail runningultra runninghttps://briancurtin.com/articles/black-canyon-100k-2021-race-recap/Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:00:00 GMT