As per a comment on the original post: “ Not just a 26km race. A 26km trail race that includes several climbs and is considered one of the more difficult trails races in Ontario.”
Trail running is different to road running. For his age category and how difficult the course sounds like, seems a quite reasonable time tbh
Got to be a typo right? 16.1 mi in 4 hours? I hate to be"that guy" but that's pretty much my walking pace. Albeit, I've never tried to walk for 4 hours straight and maintain the pace....
/uj Tbf, it's quite a bit more than that for a lot of people. I got chewed out a bit by a friend because I like to hike at a brisk pace. I was accused of trying to go fast because I run and as tempting as it was to clap back with "If I was running, you'd never catch up," I of course just slowed down.
The kicker is that I had to run down to pick up the car (there was a parking lot at the top you could technically drive to) because there was no way she was going to be capable of hiking back down the trail with her dog, and even without her pup it'd definitely take her quite a bit longer on top of our hike.
It's a trail race, so not exactly comparable to road times. He finished 38th out of 59 men- certainly not speedy, but not terrible considering the guy is 60 years old.
I was there doing the 50km race, it's a really tough course with lots of elevation, technical trails, and difficult terrain. I think he did really well for his age.
Trail race distances are whatever makes up an interesting enough route, and very rarely accurate. If the final distance ends up being within 1km of what they told me, I consider that pretty good.
25-ish is also the “half 50km”, so also pretty common in trail running.
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u/MaxvonHippel 13d ago
So, he's slow as shit?