Location
Colorado,
US
Distance
2.1 mi
Description
GPS Track
FKTs
Male
Female
Joseph Gray | 28m 40s | |||
Eli Hemming | 29m 2s | |||
Sage Canaday | 29m 6s |
Male
Female
Kyle Richardson | 44m 48s | |||
Ryan Smith | 44m 59s |
Bailey Kowalczyk | 55m 15s | |||
Abby Hall | 56m 11s | |||
Clare Gallagher | 56m 16s |
Male
Female
Kyle Richardson | 12m 40s | |||
Kyle Moss | 13m 23s | |||
Cordis Hall | 13m 26s |
Gwen Golaszewski | 16m 56s |
This route on the old FKT site
Comments
Notes on some of the more 'obscure' Green times...
Timothy Olson ran 10x Green in 13:45 https://www.strava.com/activities/2394615334/overview
Jackson Brill ran my downhill time at 13:25ish, Strava gave him the edge by a couple seconds but by our self timed button presses had me faster. For a self timed effort we agreed on the worst possible outcome, a tie. https://www.strava.com/activities/2139843470/overview
Kyle Richardson ran the double in 1:49:02 but Strava snubbed him on the CR. https://www.strava.com/activities/1425844707/overview
Leonard Strnad pushed a project to N=4 for N laps of Green in N hours.https://www.strava.com/activities/2120156809/overview
Ordinarily, the Green Mountain EMG-SR-Amp downhill is very technical and rocky in the dry. But owing to its SE aspect and frequent traffic, it's fastest when snow conditions shape up for a rare, buttery smooth singletrack from summit to trailhead. This February, the stars aligned with an exceptional cycle of good snow on Green. A fervor spread in the community. At cold trailheads and in dark winter pubs, runners discussed their favorite lines, what microspikes are best (if any), and what day would be best to go for a PR. Some downhill enthusiasts took it upon themselves to go out specifically to groom the downhill after each new snow, making sure drifts were stomped down and all preferable micro variations were packed down and ready.
This lead to a flurry of speedy downhills over the course of the month, with at least 10 sub-15 minute downhills being recorded on Strava. As of today, 13 of the top 25 all time descents on Strava were run in February, 2022.
In the midst of this fervor, we saw the mens FKT lowered 3 times:
On 2/7 Kyle Moss improved the 4-year-old FKT by a few seconds to 13:23.
Only a week later, conditions were even better, and Kyle Moss broke 13 minutes, descending from the summit disk to the asphalt parking lot in 12:47.
Two weeks later, snow conditions remained extremely tacky and well groomed, allowing Kyle Richardson to take the throne with a 12:40 descent.
After that, the ephemeral snow conditions turned to slush and spring sun, and with it, the Green '22 downhill season faded in local lore.