Not sure which one you are referring to. There are two really brutal climbs.
There was a steep hill as a detour up a narrow bike path the first year I rode MMM. My back tire spun out on some mud and I went down. It was really steep, so I wasn’t going fast. Got back on and crested the hill. The descent was exhilarating!
That climb is not good for riding in a group. I don’t recommend the detour. And it was not on the route the second time I did the event.
Toward the end of the ride there’s a two mile false flat (avg 2% grade) followed by a steep 18% grade for a 1/4 mile. Because it’s so late in the ride, it is particularly brutal after you have no legs left.
On Race the Lake they had Gatorade Sport or something like that, it different than regular gatorade, either way that sat with me worse than the regular stuff does so since then I’ve been doing the same thing in packing my own baggies of “white powder”. Science in Sport used to make single serve packs and for whatever stupid reason they decided to stop making them. Handiest little things on the face of the planet.
