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Ooo, a 50k with a 9-hr time limit as your first trail race? (first-ish?) I probably wouldn't recommend that. I'd suggest the HM to get your feet wet, so to speak (and maybe literally, depending on conditions). Bonus is that you probably won't have to start crazy early.It looks like last year my age group had 7 women, and 112 total racers. The "only" 2 races on Sunday are the 50k and the HM, and they start the HM about 2 hours after the 50k.
it's a 50k. They offer a HM, a M, a 50mi, and the 50k. And it's offered on 2 days (Saturday and Sunday) so they can do "back to back" challenge-type things (50mi on Saturday and 50k on Sunday sort of nonsense)
This is my concern.
I've dug through quite a bit of stuff, and it's mountain bike trail and possibly some access roads. So a lot of singletrack I think? Assuming a normal start, I'd likely start in the back as to not be an impediment to those who are going to finish hours before me.
Sounds like singletrack, if it's a lot of mountain bike trails. I love single track, but definitely can be technical and hilly. In a lot of my experience, mountain bike trails are randomly curvy and hilly, pretty much to give "thrills" to the bikers. (I have literally run on a trail that was like S-curves back and forth through a half-pipe of a stream drainage.)
If you can, try to run on those trails for some of your long training runs. You'll have a lot more confidence with some idea of what the terrain is like before the race.