This was the hillest part of the trail. It is the first 1/8th mile up the Mary's Loop Trail.
Renae and I went out and hiked part of the 8 mile Mary's Loop near Loma, CO. Our race is Sept 5th, so we wanted to check it out and make sure it wasn't a Powderhorn repeat. We got out there around 745 am and it was already 75 degrees. We parked in the parking lot below not knowing we could take the road up over the burm. We started our hike from the parking lot and headed up the road, down a 13 % decline (hopefully they won't make us run up this) to Mary's loop. The start of Mary's loop is about a 8% incline for 1/8th of a mile I'd reckon. It was the hardest part as it was loose rock and lime/sandstone. Much like Pollock Bench trail. After we got up that first section it was all runnable from there. We hiked 3 miles of the 8 mile loop and then turned around and came back as we had to go to some soccer games at 11am. But I'm pleased to say that it is a flat course compared to Powderhorn. Our goals is to finish it in the same times or under that we did Powderhorn. I'd like to finish in 1 hour and 46 min.
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