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EVENTS

RACE DATE

Thursday, December 31, 2015

REGISTRATION WEBSITE

Location

Huntsville Running Park

Address

CITY

Huntsville

STATE/TERR

Alabama

Zip

35802

COUNTRY

USA

Description

The 50km course consists of a 1 mile out and back followed by ten (10) loops of the 3 mile course at the Huntsville Running Park. The footing is hard packed dirt with rocks and roots mostly with some short sections on crushed stone. The course runs on the edge of the golf course with the first and last section across a grassy field. The 3 mile loop slowly climbs for the entire first mile (about 80' of elevation gain) followed by a steep downhill toward the highway. From there it is a small loop, always staying to the left, before returning to the base of the hill. After climbing the hill and topping out, the winds its way back on itself through the 2nd mile mark and back toward the start. The only deviation on this out and back course is the last section, where runners exit the woods and stay north along the fence line to make a loop of the field, before rejoining the out portion of the course, and back to the start. The miles are marked with signs and the arrows along the course guide runners which direction to take.