driske wrote:
$ hours on snowshoes over the top of 20" of the insistent white stuff. Prepping the trees to secure a harvest of Maple syrup. With 40F forecast for tommorow the real marathon of my year wiil begin.
Dang dude. That sounds like a pretty cool gig though. Forestry is kind of my thing.
As for me: You can make the first two miles into a loop making it a 3ish mile loop. I did it twice at full effort(the hill part), I think it would be better to do three at 95% full effort.
http://www.horsetoothhalfmarathon.com/PDF/HHM_final%20profile.pdf