Runners follow an out-and-back course for the Dandelion Run Half Marathon, which starts and finishes at the Derby Beach House on the town’s 4-H Road, near Lake Salem. With the exception of some paved stretches, particularly at the start and near the end of the race, most of the race course takes runners on the hilly dirt roads to the east of Derby, in and among the dandelion fields that have made the area so well-known.
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