Runners start the race at the original Walton “Five and Dime,” the first of the stores that became the Wal-Mart that’s so ubiquitous across the nation today. After the first few mostly flat miles through town and just outside the city, runners follow what is roughly a clockwise loop course around the edges of the city, a route that also features stretches along the tree-lined trails and hills to the north of town.
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