Riley Trails Marathon Course
All runners will start and finish on Benjamin’s Hope’s property (1.2 miles away from Riley Trails). Runners will run to Riley Trails via paved bike path. Runners will then complete a 4.25 mile loop on mostly single track trail on the awesomely maintained Riley Trails. (Depending on your race, Marathon, ½ Marathon, 10k or Relay, you will complete the number of loops designated for your event.Marathon: 5.5 loops, Half Marathon: 2.5 loops). Runners will then take the bike path back to Benjamin’s Hope to exchange with their team mate and/or FINISH! (*Important: ALL LOOPS will be completed at Riley Trails: 13.1- 2.5 loops at Riley. 26.2-5.5 loops at Riley.)
We want to note that the park will still be open to the public during our event due to Ottawa County Parks regulations. We will have signage and the trails will be marked where runners will be running so that people will be well aware there is an event taking place, however we can not legally instruct people to stay off the trails and out of the park. Please join us in showing respect and professionalism to all people at the park on race day! We take pride in “sharing our trails” and we ask that you do as well 4-person relay: Each runner will run 6.55 miles.
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This is the real deal. The Race is all that and a bag of sweet potatoe chips. First and foremost, the entire staff loves what they do and who they … MORE
This is the real deal. The Race is all that and a bag of sweet potatoe chips. First and foremost, the entire staff loves what they do and who they do it for. They celebrate each and everyone way before you begin and even after you end. Show up because they show out.
The beginning of the race has you running to the trail head. Consider this a warm up mile, because once you enter the trail head and embark upon the trails, you won’t want to leave. Loop after loop is lavishly laid out for you, supported for you, and naturally beautify to you. You’ll loose yourself.
After finishing this race, you’ll feel as though you got away with murder. Guilt may set in as you realize you recieved way more then you paid for. And even though I wasn’t able to finish due to my PTSD being triggered by a neighboring farmer shooting varmints in his field along the backside of the course, I so look forward to going out there again.