Rocksteady Running - MN Race Elevation Stats

Minnesota & Western Wisconsin Trail / Ultra Race Elevation Comparison

FIGURES BELOW ARE ESTIMATES AND THIS PROJECT IS FOR FUN! Below is a spreadsheet of (select) Minnesota Trail and Ultrarunning races comparing elevation gain, gain per mile, loss, loss per mile, change and change per mile. You can click the column headers to sort the sheet any way you like. The data compiled for this analysis was and is being crowd-sourced from individuals wearing wrist-top GPS units (mainly Garmin and Suunto) while running the races listed – data includes averaged totals of elevation gain, loss and change for each race excluding outliers. It is important to note that wrist-top GPS units are very inaccurate and readings vary wildly depending on a myriad of factors. While we do have hyper-accurate / empirical LiDAR elevation gain, loss and change information for a handful of Minnesota races we do not have it for all and here we have chosen to use crowd-sourced GPS wrist-top data in order to create fair course to course comparisons and fair comparisons to other races outside of this analysis as most courses around the country are measured (or should we say estimated) by writs-top GPS units. This project is ongoing and the results will continue to change and become “more accurate” as we add more data / more entries for each race – If you would like to contribute your elevation gain / loss data to this project, you can do so HERE.

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Store Policies

Sometimes our online store is open and sometimes it is closed.
In the busy weeks leading up to and after the larger races that we host, we close down the online store as needed in order to focus on the upcoming race. There are also times in the late Fall, Winter and early Spring where the store will be closed as we shift our focus to other seasonal priorities. Open and close dates will not necessarily be published so the best thing to do is to check back from time to time.

Shipping within the continental United States is always free.
A small shipping and handling fee is built right into each product in the online store to make ordering as simple and straight-forward as possible. We apply an additional $10 flat-rate shipping fee to orders from Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.

Please allow up to two weeks to receive your item(s) and sorry, we do not offer expedited shipping.
We are not a big company, we don’t have employees, we design, sell and ship all of our own stuff and keep our focus on the quality of our products and interactions. At the same time we are busy planning and executing the races that we direct. As a result, we on average only ship out one day per week.

Returns.
We accept returns of unused / unworn items within 30 days of purchase – customer pays for return shipping. We do not do exchanges, instead, you return the original item and make a new purchase of what you would like instead. There will be periods where we cannot process returns due to being away at the races that we direct OR seasonally as we focus on other priorities but we will be happy to get you taken care of as time allows.

Store Policies

Shipping within the continental United States is always free.
A small shipping and handling fee is built right into each product in the online store to make ordering as simple and straight-forward as possible. We apply a $10 flat-rate shipping fee to orders from Hawaii, Alaska and Canada.

Returns and Exchanges.
We accept returns and exchanges of unused / unworn items within 30 days of purchase but you pay for all shipping after the initial purchase (shipping back to us and the shipping associated with exchanges.) There will be periods where we cannot process returns or exchanges due to being away at the races that we direct OR seasonally as we focus on other priorities but we will be happy to get you taken care of as time allows.