Runners start the race near the Pickett’s Fort Visitor Center, a reconstructed monument to the historic fort that once served as a refuge for colonial Virginians from the Native American Indians in the 1770s.
From there, participants traverse the first 4.2 miles of the course in an out-and-back run along blacktop surface to the Fairmont Trail Head, turning around there back toward the visitors center, where they pick up the Monongahela River Trail for the rest of the race.
It’s along the river portion of the course that the scenery is at its best, lined with trees and wintry precipitation on the ground on one side and the rushing waters of the river on the other.
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