The Course
The course begins on Riverview Road just to the north of the Boston Mills Ski Resort. Runners head south until they come to Boston Mill Road where they run east until they enter the Towpath Trail, a distance of approximately 0.5 miles. Runners head south along the trail for roughly seven miles, turn around at the Ira Road Trailhead parking lot and then run back north for 13 miles. Just north of the Station Road Bridge the runners again reverse direction and head south for six miles until they reach the finish line at the Boston Store.
Runner's World magazine has described the race as “one of the most beautiful race courses in America”.
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Famous quotes related to the course:
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)