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Tenderloin
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Mainly Strava, although any GPS route is accepted. (Pretty informal rules but people are asked not to take the piss by having mainly downhill routes, for example!) We all did a half marathon challenge recently so I'm just gonna use the same route (~3.5 mile loop) and hope to go marginally quicker.
I find the mental challenge of track racing harder, the longer the distance. A bit of scenery definitely compensates for slower road courses. My 10k road PB is marginally quicker than my 10,000m track PB, partly because I've had more cracks at it, but also because 25 laps is soul-destroying. Even over 12.5 laps it's handy having coping strategies, like breaking the race into km chunks, rather than watching the lap counter every lap.