ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月16日 22時24分

The toughest part of the Dipsea, said to be the oldest #trailrunning race in the U.S., might not be the first mile, which contains nearly 700 stairs rising through the forests above Mill Valley. It is not the jiggly-legged drop into Muir Woods, or the steep rise up Dynamite, so named because your churning legs might feel ready to explode. And it’s not even the next big hill, called Cardiac. It’s not the treacherous plunge toward the Pacific Ocean, the crooked depths and broken steps of Steep Ravine, even the poison oak that crowds the skinny trails. And it’s not the course’s maze of permissible shortcuts, like the one named Suicide, that give locals an advantage. No, the toughest part of the 7.5-mile #Dipsea could be mental. It’s knowing that the slowest runners are given head starts and the fastest ones begin at the back. It’s like unloading a zoo’s worth of animals in reverse order of mobility and releasing the cheetahs at the end. That’s how the winners over the past decade include an 8-year-old girl and a 72-year-old man. And it’s also how our reporter @johnbranchnyt — a local, who jogs the hills where the race takes place a few times a week — started 5 minutes behind the defending champion. Visit the link in our profile to read about his experience, and to see more photos of the race by @frostfoto12.

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