Lake Placid Marathon

Name: Lake Placid Marathon
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010
Location: Lake Placid, NY US
Website: http://www.lakeplacidmarathon.com/
Registration Webpage: http://www.lakeplacidmarathon.com/entry.php

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Lake Placid Half Marathon

Start Time: 8:00 AM
Registration Deadline: 6/12/2010
Registration Fee: $80
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Lake Placid Marathon

Start Time: 8:00 AM
Registration Deadline: 6/12/2010
Registration Fee: $90
Click here for details»

Course Information:
The Lake Placid Marathon & Half was recently ranked by a Runner's World Magazine survey as the #2 "Best Destination" race in the United States. It is a high quality premier early season race held in the charming Olympic Village of Lake Placid, New York USA home of the 1932 & 1980 Winter Games.

The Olympic village of Lake Placid is in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. The two loop out and back course is best described as moderate rolling, some flat, with a few steep hills. The most significant hills are near the ski jumps on Route 73 (once for the half marathon and twice for the full marathon) and leading up to the finish behind the Lake Placid High School (once for the half marathon and once for the full marathon). Each of these hills is approximately 3/10 of a mile long. Chuck Engles winning time of 2:34:39 from 2006 proves the course is reasonable and fair. Most of the course is asphalt road. The marathon contains approximately 0.8 miles of gravel and dirt inside the Horseshow Grounds facility during the second loop.

Both races will start on Main Street in front of the Olympic Speedskating Oval at 8:00 a.m. on race day. Mass start. Runners will proceed along historic Main Street past the Post Office and through the center of town for the first half mile. Everyone will then proceed clockwise around Mirror Lake on Mirror Lake Drive to join Parkside Drive at the National Sports Academy as in the past. The course proceeds out Route 73 to the Horseshow Grounds before doing a 2.8 mile out and back on River Road for the first loop.

MARATHON (two loop course): After the River Road turn around, runners will continue back through the Horseshow Grounds and Marathoners will turn back at the Mill Pond Drive and Rte. 73 intersection and return to the Horseshow Grounds for a short, flat loop within the Horseshow Grounds complex (This allows the marathoners to avoid the hill climb back up to the Speedskating Oval at the end of the first loop. They will only do it once at the finish instead of two times). The course proceeds back out Route 73 to the 4.0 mile out and back turn around on River Road. Marathoners continue back through the Horseshow Grounds and continue to the finish at the Olympic Speedskating Oval.

Each race will still finish with a significant hill in the final mile, consistent with the challenging nature of Lake Placid’s Adirondack mountain terrain.

Lake Placid Marathon

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