They say you “can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. We’re not sure if that’s true but we’ll never know, because dogs are too smart to do this race. The better question is can we teach the “morons” that have done this event faithfully for a quarter of a century to embrace the new design of the Half Wit Half and Quarter Wit Half a Half. Because from what we’ve derived, past attempts to teach people that are dumb enough to enter this race ANYTHING, either scholarly or just practical, have failed MISERABLY!
The Half Wit Half has become a mecca for the “slow of mind and, in some cases, slow of foot” and also for the Type A’s that don’t think a race is challenging enough unless you need a tourniquet sometime during it. It has loads of rocks, roots, branches, poor footing, uncaring on-course support and for a few of you, you MAY be biting off more than you can chew! But for the first time, THAT WON’T BE A PROBLEM!! For we have converted the course to a 6.55M loop that you can decide, in mid-course, if you wish to run it once or twice, just like several of our other trail races. Providing that you finish the first loop in less than 1 hr., 50 minutes (just a shade below a 17 minute per mile average), you can go on and do another loop to get the full half; or if you decide that that is a REALLY stupid idea; finish in the Quarter Wit; there are awards in each.
Now, if you need more that 1 hr., 50 minutes to do the first loop, we WILL count you in the Quarter Wit and when you finally come to your senses, YOU WILL THANK US!!! The Half Wit loop will STILL have outrageous uphills and
technical downhills, rocks and roots throughout, foliage that grabs at your clothing/ankles and LOTS that make it quite an accomplishment to complete it, whether you do 1 loop or two. Like all our trail races, it has unique aid stations with alternate beverages, a very well-marked course, probably our most memorable shirt annually, a covered finishing area, a cash bar at the finish, etc.
Come on out and run either a distance that will lay you out for the day or half that distance which seems a LOT smarter to us. Which means you’ll probably do the whole thing anyway. Many of you ran this event in the past and swore that you would never do it again. Now, you can do HALF of it and still see how outrageous a course we can design. And also see who is dumb enough to do it twice!!!!
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