Quote Originally Posted by snapdragen View Post

mp - I think the course is the same, we start in Union Square, head out to Embarcadero, travel 'round to the Great Highway and end at GG Park. So tell me how many hills we hit....
While GG Park is rolly, there's really only one sustained "hill" and that's from the end of Crissy Field by Ft. Point up to - crud! - you know, the fancy neighborhood where Robin Williams lives - Seadrift? Something like that. Seacliff?? I drive through it every day I have to get Em from the zoo and now I am blanking. Why am I drawing such a blank? Long day.

Anyway, by the time you get to that hill you will be happy to have something other than dead flat road - really. At least I was. And I largely walked my last marathon. Having a hill works some different muscles at a really good point in this course. You're a good 5 - 7 miles into it by that point. And that's probably a mile of climb, maybe less. Then the rest is rolly.