Plenty of challenging hills along with sticks, roots, rocks and potentially muddy spots and water await at the Leave No Trace Trail Half Marathon, which takes runners on mountain biking trails that wind through Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Peninsula, less than an hour’s drive south from Cleveland. Runners will definitely need to be prepared to get dirty for this race, organizers say, and also be ready for lots of uphills and downhills as they do two loops of the below course.
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