Runners are likely to see actual sage rats along the race route, which starts in the Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot in Sunnyside and unfolds along the Lower Yakima Valley Pathway, a paved biking, walking and running trail that stretches 14 miles between Grandview and Sunnyside. The race route heads southeast all the way to the nearby town of Prosser, where the race finish line lies at that city’s Chamber of Commerce building on Southwest Bennett Avenue.
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