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New Hampshire >  CHaD Outrun The Sun Half Marathon
Hanover, NH
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Date

Saturday, September 6, 2008



Event Details

The Dartmouth Medical School sponsors the two-year-old CHaD Half Marathon, which welcomed more than 900 runners in 2007 and who, along with the event’s many volunteers, helped raise just over $142,000 for the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD). Known perhaps most for its plentiful downhill stretches that offer participants a chance to achieve fast (and personal record) half-marathon finishing times, the race is also exceptional for its afternoon starting time – 4:00 PM – and for its views of this iconic college’s beautiful campus, including the Dartmouth College Green, the Hanover Center, and the Connecticut River.

Open to a maximum of 1,000 individual runners and 100 team relay participants, this point-to-point race starts at just under 1,200 feet above sea level and sees its steepest hills around miles 2 and 3. After the third mile marker, the course begins a long, gradual downhill (with a few moderate hills thrown in for good measure) that descends about 600 feet and doesn’t end until you reach mile 10, after which the course rises gently toward the finish.

Runners are cautioned to remain on the left of the center of the road on the stretch along Dogford Road (between miles 4 and 5) and that sidewalks may not be used anywhere along the course.

Parking for all runners is provided at the Dartmouth Medical School campus, from which participants will be shuttled by bus to the starting line at the Village Green in the nearby town of Etna. The finish line (it is not marked) lies at the Dartmouth College Green. For those who don’t want to run the full 13.1 miles by themselves, a three-segment relay race is also available for 3-person teams.


Race Weather & Climate

The late summer weeks bring some of the nicest weather of the year to the Hanover area, with August temperatures that average between 57°F and 81°F and rainfall averages of 3.7 inches for the month.


Fees

$45 for individual runners
$120 for 3-person relay teams


Registration

You can register online for the 2008 running of the CHaD Half Marathon by clicking here.


Website

dhmcalumdev.hitchcock.org


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