You’ll take a shuttle bus on the morning of the race from the high school to the starting line, which lies at the Darling Run parking area, just south of Ansonia, an unincorporated community along U.S. Route 6.
From there, the half marathon and full marathon head out onto the trail, which has been named by USA Today as one of the 10 best biking tours in the nation, and where the grade is so slight as to be unnoticeable, according to cyclists and runners who use it.
Runners won’t notice much of a change in elevation throughout the half marathon course, which starts at just over 1,100 feet above sea level and drops by only about 100 feet by the time you reach the half-way point of the race; you’ll regain those feet on the way back to the finish line.
The trail, whose history as a railroad dates all the way back to the early 1880s, is made up of crushed limestone and features campgrounds, small towns and trailheads throughout its more than 62 miles.
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