Ok well I am Nominating one of THE hardest 3 mile cross country
course. This course located in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains
in Albuquerque, NM. This course is located at 7000 feet and is the
hardest course ever.
You start off in a basin of a dam, and take off on your first hill
just 300 meters into it. You then go down hill for a quarter mile,
and then turn around and go up for a good half mile on a steep gradual
hill. Then soon after that you hit hell.
The runners take off on probably four of the steepest hills in
the rocky mountains. The first hill is about 80 meters long and
rises about 50 feet. The next hill comes right after that and is
Huge! This one is probably 90 meters long and rises well over 90
feet. As soon as the runners crest this hill, they go down for 50
meters and hit the third hill which is just a bit longer and steeper
than the second hill. The fourth hill is the killer. After the third
hill there's no downhill to recover in fact you gradual rise about
40 feet over about 200 meters before hitting the fourth hill. The
fourth hill is more like a mountain face. If you think you run that
hill your crazy. Its more like walking. You think you run that hill
but your not really running it. The pace is so slow even for the
top runners.
After you run(walk) that hill your only break comes. You get a
half mile downhill. Then you go up the same hill from the start.
And then go down hill for a quarter mile, and then turn around and
go up for a good half mile on a steep gradual hill. You then turn
in for the finish.
After reading about the Maryland course, I was in total disbelief.
The guys who run there would not survive this course. I ran this
course and won it. My name is Josh Rogers. I believe I could have
been in the top fifty in the nation had I not gotten injured. On
paper I was faster than Alex Romero at the time of this race. I
believe at foot locker west Alex and I will turn some heads because
both of us are very unknown runners in the cross country world.
But I ran this course before I got injured, and finished in a measly
18:12. I won by twenty seconds over the third fastest runner in
our state Bratton.
So if the boys from Maryland want to come and run one of the hardest
courses in cross country feel free. I can guarantee there are few
kids in this nation who will break 18 minutes. So you decide no
one has broke 18 on this course, and no one has broke 16 on the
Maryland course. So you decide which is harder.
Josh Rogers
Toughest Courses
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