Course

Kari and I went out and put markers up on the Keystone course on Saturday.  Please don't tear them down.  It probably looks like we just put markers on every trail out there, but there are a couple places we will need to put volunteers to direct you because caution tape for one course would block the other.

Here's what we decided (for better or worse).  The run will start from the parking lot to the left.  Follow the main trail, but keep an eye out on your right for a turn-off before you get to the creek crossing/short loop-long loop junction.  The run course will follow this side-trail, which reconnects with the main trail a few yards down.  Then you will turn right and continue around the short loop (stay to your right after the creek crossing).  The run will be around 3 miles, but it's pretty rocky, so I don't think you'll mind the .1 or so we shorted it.

You'll run back in on the main trail to the right of the parking lot as you face the pond.  Across the lot to the transition area and on your bike (unless you signed up for the 5k).  You'll bike the main trail (big loop) twice.  Go out the same way you left on the run.  Stay on the main trail- don't go up the side-trail we diverted you on the run.  After the creek crossing turn left.  The first half of the trail is rocky and technical, but the last part of the trail is the payoff and it's really fun.  When you come through the start/finish area, you may have to dismount for the timing system to register your lap (I'll talk to the timing company) and then you'll head off for another lap of the same.  This makes the bike a bit longer than advertised, at 10.7 miles.  That's 1.4 miles long, which you can attribute to the fun stuff on the backside of the lap.  Hopefully everyone will enjoy it.  You must understand that we have no choice but to work with the trails we're racing on, so the racing distances can't be exact every single race.

Should be a fun time if you don't go out and kill yourself.  Take your time through the rocks, dismount when you have to (there are three places during the lap that I dismount during races), and above all have fun.  We want you to enjoy it and come back for more.

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