Twenty-eight miles and nearly five thousand feet from the Black Mountain trailhead, capped at 200 riders, with cutoffs at mile 16 and mile 22. Redline Athlete forecasts your finish from your own numbers, prices every climb against your reserve, and puts the plan on your head unit.
No card. No account needed to try it.
A hundred and seventy-three feet of climbing per mile is the highest density on this list. The organiser's own words: rugged mining roads, fun singletrack, tough climbs and hell-raising descents. Figures from the Blue Ridge Adventures event page (28.1 mi, 4,872 ft, aid at miles 7, 16 and 22). When you load the course file, the app measures it for itself.
The 1:00 PM cutoff at mile 16 and 2:00 PM at mile 22 turn the Swank into a pacing problem with a clock on it. The plan tells you what you will have left at both.
At 173 ft per mile there is no flat to recover on. The fatigue curve steps up on every climb, and the plan shows where the descents actually give something back and where they only feel like they do.
The climbs are largely on old road, which is where watts pay, and the descents are where they stop paying. The plan separates the two so you know where to spend.
Three feeds on a course this short means the fuel plan is about timing rather than quantity. The plan places your carbohydrate against the climbs, not the clock.
Cold starts and warm climbs. Set the temperature you expect at the top, not at the trailhead, and the plan adjusts your sustainable power to it.
A forecast from your weight, fitness and the course file, with a pace target you can hold rather than an average someone else rode.
Every climb ranked by what it takes out of your anaerobic reserve, not by how tall it looks. With this many steep pitches, the climb that empties you is often the third one, not the biggest one.
Carbohydrate burned against what you can absorb, hour by hour, with a warning when the plan runs short. Three to five hours with three feeds: the plan says which feed to skip if you are ahead and which one never to skip.
The longest climb, the hardest one for you, the recovery window before it and the technical stretch late in the day, sent to your Garmin, Wahoo or watch as waypoints.
The model is fitted against recorded races, not lab assumptions. On a Chequamegon 40 validation ride it predicted 2:24:28 against an actual finish of 2:24:20.
Your prediction comes with a confidence range, because honesty beats a single flattering number. The Swank has not yet been run through the model on a recorded file. When a rider shares one, this page gets its own numbers.
The front finishes in a little over three hours and the cutoffs shape the back of the field at five. The calculator forecasts your time from your own numbers, and tells you what you will have at mile 16 and mile 22.
Mark them. The plan's markers go to your head unit, so the cutoff points beep as you reach them along with your predicted state there.
Yes. Run the full analysis as a guest, no account. Pro ($9/month, or $59/year) adds saved rides, a saved athlete profile and the head-unit export.
Same model, one page per course.
Same course, your fitness, your pacing. Two minutes of setup now beats twenty-eight miles of guessing.