Runners start the out-and-back course for the half marathon on the campus of Ithaca’s Cornell University, just south of Tower Road and near the university’s athletic facilities. From there, runners head out on a loop route along Ellis Hollow Road, which takes them through the rural areas east of the university where they’ll encounter the famed “skunk” cabbage that gives the race its name.
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