Runners follow an out-and-back loop course for the half marathon, which starts and finishes on the square at Lynn Street in Viola. From there, runners make their way around a clockwise loop along the rolling rural roads — including Ragsdale Road, Pleasant Knoll Road and Marcrom Road — before heading back into townjust outside this small middle Tennessee town, which lies about an hour and a half’s drive north from Chattanooga.
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