From the starting line at Harwich High School, the out-and-back course for this half marathon takes runners all around this village on Cape Cod overlooking Nantucket Sound, through Lee Baldwin Nature Park and a nearly two-mile-long stretch of the Cape Cod Nature Trail, as well as a (very) brief stretch overlooking the shoreline at Red River Beach. Though there are rolling hills throughout, the flattest part of the race occurs in the stretch closest to the shoreline, through Harwich Port.
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