Cimbri

The course profile is located on page 5 here.

Here's an interactive course map.

Overall, there was 6,000+ feet of climbing/descending.

The stupidity continues…

Apparently limping around for a few days after the Forni di Sopra Sky Race didn’t teach me enough of a lesson. The middle of the week before last I decided to run the Ecomaratona dei Cimbri. I had wanted to do it for the last few years, but stuff kept coming up. Anyway, I decided it was now or never, so I took the plunge.

It was a great run, and I felt wonderful the whole race. I had convinced a new guy at work to run with me. Unfortunately he was quite a bit slower and cost me a lot of time the second half (and a little before that), but he also kept me from running too hard and bonking. I finished with a time of 6:11, although on my own I’m sure I would have been about an hour faster, and maybe even under 5. He had to walk most of the decents, including the final 7 kms, and I have no problem running them.

This run really reminded me how much I enjoy trail racing.

Here we are about 2 or 3 miles into the race:

Then again at village "Le Rotte", 30.5 kms: