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Cave Creek Thriller Cave Creek, Arizona, United States

Name: Cave Creek Thriller
Start: 2026-10-17
End: 2026-10-17

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Cave Creek Thriller

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Foot race | 17 Oct 2026

7.3 mi

Distance

Elevation gain

2,493 ft

Elevation high

2,234 ft

Elevation avg

Trail/Dirt

Elevation loss

2,051 ft

Elevation low

11%

Climb factor

What is climb factor?

The climb factor for a course is the percentage of your energy used in hill-climbing compared to the energy expended running the flats.

This course has a climb factor of 11% over 7.3 mi, which means that the energy expenditure for the run is equivalent to running a flat 8.1 mi.

Climb factor is provided courtesy of Ben Crowell, who both authored climb factor's scientific paper and wrote the open source software for it. You can read more about it here .

Course last updated 7 Oct 2026

All values approximate

Distance & elevation data

The distance or elevation data not precisely what you expect for this route?

Data from a GPS device can be rough, especially in areas where the terrain (trees, canyons) interfere with GPS signals. And routes drawn on our maps are reliant on people marking trails from satellite images -- the details of which can be hidden by trees.

Elevation can be tricky too. Elevation data is stored on spaced topographical lines, and determining the elevation of a point requires computers to estimate based on how close the point is to the topographical line.

We mitigate this by calculating distance in 3-D (think Pythagorean theorem) and using mathematical techiniques to smooth the elevation data. We come close, but no one can be perfect with imperfect data, even in 2026.

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Stats summary

Race distance	Distance	Ele gain	Ele loss	Ele avg	Paved	Gravel	Dirt	Narrow
5K	3.6 mi	545 ft	538 ft	2,244 ft	1%	99%	0%	100%
11K	7.3 mi	981 ft	974 ft	2,234 ft	0%	100%	0%	100%
24K	15.3 mi	1,936 ft	1,732 ft	2,178 ft	1%	73%	26%	99%
50K	31.3 mi	2,805 ft	2,178 ft	1,923 ft	1%	53%	46%	98%