Lincoln HS 5Km XC Course Tour (Tom Brown Park)

Here's this year's 5Km "north is up" course map. No changes from last year. DON'T WEAR SPIKES on this course. 1M of smooth asphalt, plus more of not smooth asphalt. This map is based upon this 8Sep07 GPS track: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3895788 Load that .kml file into Google Earth and make a better map!

(Old map from 2006.) LINCOLN XC COURSE NORTH is to the LEFT. Aerial view from Google Earth. If you look carefully, you might notice I've used different shapes for the dots designating the Start to 1M, 1M to 2M, 2M to 3M, and 3M to the 5k finish. I DO NOT recommend using spikes on this course! Too much asphalt. Spectators traditionally head into the woods after the kids head up the road after 800m. There's a great view of the racers as they pass the halfway point at 2.5k. Then, back out of the woods to the 2M and then the finish by the big pavilion.

8Sep07 GPS track w/o splits, north left. Kind of hard to follow that red track, non? (This is what my http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3895788 GPS track .kml file looks like when loaded into Google Earth and then rotated -90 degrees.)

8Sep07 GPS track w/o splits, in the borealicentric "north up" view. (This is what my http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3895788 GPS track .kml file looks like when loaded into Google Earth.)

From behind our "start tree," looking southward across a terraced field east of Easterwood Drive.

Looking eastward along the starting line.

From the opposite direction, looking westward along the starting line. Easterwood Drive is straight uphill.

One last view from the start. I'm on the bike, backed up to the tree. Ok, let's get this show on the road.

50m

100m We'll be staying to the left of the power poles.

150m

200m

250m

300m

350m We'll be continuing to the left around this treeline till we've done a "180."

400m The doggie playpens are to our right.

450m This is Goose Pond Trail. We'll be back here at the 2M point, as well.

500m I think I remember saying DON'T WEAR SPIKES on this course.

550m Note the big pavilion to our left. We'll finish on the grass next to it.

600m

650m

700m

750m PRE-2008 ONLY: Runners veered left between the posts and then run ~350m up the entrance road. FOR THE 2008 RACE: Stay on the paved trail until you cross onto the road. Then go left up the road as in years past. There's now a fence blocking exit through the posts. This long-cut revision shortens the finish line (and succeeding photos) by a few meters.

800m

850m

900m

950m

1Km