Course Info & Details
Quintessential Bluegrass Country!
The very southern tip of Fayette County (home of Lexington) is rich in history and natural geography.
Just a couple miles from our course are the Kentucky River Palisades, a unique region anchoring a 450-million-year-old ecosystem consisting of limestone cliffs, deep gorges, springs, and an intricate cave system. Lexington limestone—composed of thin limestone and interbedded shales—covers most of this area. The Palisades region covers approximately 100 river miles through Central Kentucky along the Kentucky River.
Tates Creek Road, where Talon Winery is nestled, dead ends at the Kentucky River - where you can only pass over by ferry! Yes, old school style, the Valley View Ferry transports you and your vehicle over the Fayette / Jessamine / Madison county line.
Tates Creek Road was also the boyhood home of our very own Race Director, Eric Marr, who grew up when much of the area was still farmland. Our new Half Marathon course traverses the locally-legendary back country roads of Jacks Creek Pike, Walnut Hill Lane and Delong Roads, where Eric’s dad took him to learn how to drive when Eric was sixteen. In fact, Eric’s high school to this day is still named Tates Creek High School.
Local runners as well as all of our out-of-town guests are in for a real treat with our brand new course! That I know of, there’s never been a race out along these awesome roads before, meaning this is going to be brand new terrain for everyone!
Course Maps
This PDF gives you the general lay of the land while our digital MapMyRun versions give you more of the details.
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