Runners will take off from the beach and run clockwise around Echo Lake. The first mile is flat, rooty doubletrack that will allow the field to spread out a bit. Careful not to take off too exuberantly, or there may be much suffering in store for you… Nearing mile 1 runners will veer onto fun singletrack that swoops among boulders and provides glimpses of the towering Cathedral Ledge on the left, which you will soon ascend… Runners will follow the trail out to the access road for a few hundred feet at Cathedral’s north end, then make a hard left onto the “Climber’s Trail.” Here’s where things get STEEP!