Notes
beautiful fall day...colder in morning...a big climb to start, followed by 4 more big climbs(Tolbert was toughest on 5th climb) and a small climb after that towards end. there were some runnable sections as well. also some steep, technical descents. overall took my time from the start, didn't feel too bad. i did not taking trekking poles and feel they would have helped me. my goal was 8 hrs or faster. saw a lot of people i knew there either running the 50k or 25k, which started at 9am.