Welcome to the DPR Trail Half Marathon, Marathon, 50K and 50 Mile Ultra Marathon along the beautiful and fast Des Plaines River Trail in Lake County, Illinois, starting and finishing at Half Day Forest Preserve. With expected cool temperatures, flat terrain, and ideal running surface, you’ll find this trail to …
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Welcome to the DPR Trail Half Marathon, Marathon, 50K and 50 Mile Ultra Marathon along the beautiful and fast Des Plaines River Trail in Lake County, Illinois, starting and finishing at Half Day Forest Preserve.
With expected cool temperatures, flat terrain, and ideal running surface, you’ll find this trail to be extremely fast, which is perfect for a personal best, or a Boston Qualifying time. (Marathon is a Boston Qualifier!) Come out and join us for a great run!
The DPR Trail is truly awesome and the color changes are OMG-worthy! You’ll run through beautiful alternating lush forests and open wetlands on a very flat, wide, crushed gravel trail, free of roots and rocks.
All of the major road crossings are managed by way of bridges or viaducts (with only 4 minor road crossings along the whole 50K/50 Mile course, 2 on the Marathon course, and none for the Half-Marathon course).
All races are basically an out and back along the northern segment of the Des Plaines River Trail system. This is a TRAIL RACE so you may encounter areas where you may run through some water. This race is run along the Des Plaines River which floods during heavy rains. If the course is flooded we will run the ALTERNATE course.
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Incredible Journey!
The 10th year anniversary of this race was a blast. It was my first time at this race and my first race over 26.2! We ran an alternate route due … MORE
The 10th year anniversary of this race was a blast. It was my first time at this race and my first race over 26.2! We ran an alternate route due to flooding of the Des Plaines River. It was a 6.55 mile loop 8 times, lap one modified to keep the distance at 50 miles. About 2% of the race was in water. Ankle deep to start and then got deeper later. The race was incredibly fun, water was a welcomed challenge, it was a new thing to train for! Two aid stations were well manned and we’ll stocked. Everyone was incredible, thank you to the directors and volunteers! At the start, it was about 32 degrees with wind-chills under 30. It got warmer toward the end and was about 50. Picture there with both hands down and 1/4 zip unzipped, was my smile at hour 8! I finished at 9 hours and 12 minutes. I will be back for that under 9 hour mark!!