It should be a walk in the park, or perhaps a run.
Lawrence Trail Hawks will host 100-mile and 50-mile races as well as a marathon Saturday and Sunday, at Clinton State Park, 798 N. 1415 Road, Lawrence.
“Everyone’s going to read this and think we are crazy,” said race director Danny Miller. “But it’s fun. It gives people the chance to go out in nature and clear their head.”
The races will be run in a 25 mile-loop at Clinton Lake and there will be three way stations set up to provide aid and food to the runners.
“We will have food going all the time. You can’t run something like this without going through a lot of calories,” Miller said. Miller added that most runners will walk at least 50 miles of the 100-mile race.
The top three finishers in each race will receive rewards; those finishing the 100-mile race in less than 24 hours will receive a belt buckle.
Registration costs $70 for the marathon, $75 for the 50-mile race and $140 for the 100-mile race. Race participants will all receive a T-shirt to commemorate the event.
Miller said that the group is putting on this race, in part, to help Clinton Lake State Park and will donate part of the proceeds to the park.
“We like to give back,” he said. “We also really like the trails.”
The marathon will begin at 7 a.m. Saturday. The 50- and 100-mile races will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday. “No matter what happens everyone that goes out there are going to have a good time,” Miller said.
For more information visit Lawrencetrailhawks.com
Comments
fred_mertz 8 months, 1 week ago
You'd think for running a hundred miles they'd at least give you a nice belt to go along with the buckle.
Pretty amazing what mere mortals can do when they set their mind to it.
Currahee 8 months, 1 week ago
Stay hydrated folks! Have fun!
none2 8 months, 1 week ago
I hope eventually a bike trail is created that goes completely around Clinton Lake on the north shore to the point that it can hook up with the Landon Nature Trail in the ghost town of Richland in Shawnee County.
Right now, Lawrence is out of scope for the large trail projects that are in northeast Kansas. If one looks at pre-1900 era Douglas County maps, there was a rail line that went from Lawrence to Richland. Most of that area was submerged when Clinton Lake was formed -- thus the reason that any such trail would be from scratch and not from an existing rail bed. Anyway, if it could hook up with the Landon Nature Trail, Lawrence would be hooked up with a very large network of bike trails. From the Landon Trail one could go north to Topeka, or south to hook up with the Flint Hills Trail. The Flint Hills Trail goes west all the way to Herington, KS and east all the way to Osawatomie, KS. Headed east on the Flint Hills Trail, one could choose to stop in Ottawa, get off that trail, and pick up the Prairie Nature Trail which goes all the way to Iola and may one day go a bit further south to Humboldt, KS maybe even Chanute one day. (Note: Landon & Flint Hills are on going projects. They are not complete.)
(For those worried about government expenses, Landon and Flint Hills trails are not funded by the government. I think the only exceptions are that within town/city limits usually the local government manages the trails.)
just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 8 months, 1 week ago
Great idea.
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