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Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
The hills in the park where I usually run generally reach their maximum steepness at about 12-15% but average about 5-7%.
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Is Golf Course hill the steepest? Ever calculate the grade on that one?
Can anyone out there that runs hills explain how steep a 20% grade is for a hill? Is a slope that high that you can not see the top of a hill starting from the bottom? Thanx
The Manitou Incline (you're familiar with this Trent, having run Pikes) rises 2011' in 1.02 miles for an average gradient of 41% and it has a max gradient of 68%. Looking down the incling. Yowza!
I'm guessing they don't exactly run straight up that hill. Lots of switchbacks, I'd think.