Blue Points 5k –going the opposite direction? You don’t say

I just finished reading Theodon's blog about the organizers changing the direction of the Blue Points race due to the road work on Stonewall.

It reminds me of another race where they ran the course one way on odd years and the other way on even years. The start and finish were in the same place just the direction changed based on the year.

Now, we will fast forward to Blue Points. It should be interesting running the course in the opposition direction. Without doubt, the first mile will have more incline and then going down Morehead which is a steeper decent than Stonewall should give the quads a greater pounding. You will not feel it until you start back up Stonewall and have to look up the 1 or so of incline which is a pretty straight incline and see your competition either coming back or pulling away. – Depending on your perspective

The really true test will be the runners that save enough in the first half of the race that they can really challenge Stonewall hill.

Another concern that might affect some of the runner’s race strategies, once you top over Tryon, it is a shorter running distance to the finish line and with considerable amount of debt, it will be the runners that want it the most making gains in this section of the course.

I am certainly looking forward to it and I am looking forward to seeing how I match up with Steve S. and Mark C. on this new course.

-btw if anyone is interested, I will be leaving the starting line at 6:45 for a prerun of the course and after the race, I usually try to do a warm down over the course if anyone is interested.

Let me know.