Next up, XC racing,

ran 69 miles this week. My longest mileage day was the day of the 10k race, with 2.5 warm up, 10k, then 4.5 down.

This picture may put the hill at mile 3 into perspective. Thank goodness there are no picture of me running up the hill though. Would not have been pretty. This snap shot of the hill is at the start and it pretty much stays that way for a mile, with a couple of steeper sections.
The pics of me are at mile 1.5, leaving the brigde. Then during the last mile, both feet off the groung.