http://recsports.tamu.edu/programs/Intramurals/RampRomp.pdf

It's Feb. 24 at 10 AM...the week after Austin. Don't think I'll be running it, but geez...I've run the last ten so I hate to miss even if I just jog around.

For those who have never run this race, I strongly encourage you to do so. It's a lot of fun, but very tough for a 5k.

I've never run this one before, but always wanted to.

It looks like it will be a week before the Half Marathon, so I may have to run a couple miles after the 5K before I start my week of winding down and resting.

is a person grosely out of place if he graduated 12 years ago?

Nope! That's when I graduated.

interesting.....mix in a Hoops game that afternoon against Baylor....Wings 'N More and the chicken that night.....interesting

I have always wanted to do this run (well, since I graduated and started running....could have cared less when I was there)

Funny you mentioned that. Last year I ran the race, watched the Ags play Nebraska that afternoon and went to NG that night. I can vouch that it was a fun day.

Plan coming together:

* have convinced other buddies to come down for the game
* gotten the kitchen pass from the wife
* Already training for a Half in April so the run should be easy
* Now all I gotta do is sign up, run, and drink beer

Does anyone know the % incline of the ramps?

ive heard from friends that have run it that it is difficult, but it is not the absolute crap out that you would expect because the coast down the ramps gives you enough of a breather. On another note, I would run it but I am running the Cowtown half that day.

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Already training for a Half in April so the run should be easy

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i wouldn't count on that unless you've been doing a lot of hill training.

I ran this for the first time last year expecting it to be hell.

It actually seemed much easier than normal 5Ks... the ramps break up the constant thinking of holding on that "sprint" for 3.1 miles. You only run for about 1.5 miles before getting to the ramps.

It actually made the run seem to go by faster.

It's all about saving yourself for the third ramp.

you're right, I should not proclaim it to be easy. I don't do a ton of hills, so that will be a beetch.

But at least I have the distance, and the desire to run. I won't be worried about time.

The bigger issue is that given how that weekend is shaping up, I was supposed to do a 10 mile run on this day. Well, since I am going to college station to do this run and subsequent beer drinking, I will do the 10 on Friday, so I am likely to be a bit noodle legged.

I'll probably be in trouble on the ramps.....

Are the gates to the ramp open for a practice run on any given day?

It's alot of fun. I ran every year I was in school.