The Course
If you open this map in another window, it is easy to follow the detailed description of the course below:
- The race starts at the Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle and runs east up Broadview, starting with a 1/2 mile climb at a 3.6% grade (almost 100 feet in elevation). This is the biggest hill on the course and will spread the pack out before the first trail is entered.
Patrick Reagan on a section of the Leatherstocking Trail
- Our first wooded area is the Leatherstocking Trail, a challenging 2.7 mile linear park that is often rocky and hilly. This trail brings us past Larchmont and into Mamaroneck.
- A short, steep uphill road (8% grade) connection brings you to Saxon Woods at the 4 mile mark, entered via Old White Plains Road. The first water stop is on this hill.
- After looping around the southern part of Saxon Woods, we will head north past a lake along the park’s eastern border.
- A tunnel under the Hutchinson River Parkway brings us to the northern section of the park.
- After emerging from the tunnel we will follow a trail that briefly skirts the parking lot of the Saxon Woods pool. (This is an easy viewpoint for family/spectators.) We then turn west toward the Saxon Woods golf course, in the Scarsdale part of the park, emerging along the 18th fairway heading toward Mamaroneck Road and the golf club house.
- Just past the 18th hole at the 7.5M mark is Saxon Woods Golf Clubhouse. This area will be used for our second water stop, which also includes, toilets and medical assistance. (In total, we will run for 3.5M in this deeply wooded park without a single major road crossing.)
- The race then heads west on the Hutchinson River Trail (these are the woods next to the southbound Hutch) through Scarsdale.
- The trail turns southwest in Twin Lakes Park in Eastchester, running in the woods between the Hutch and California Road.
- The third water stop is just short of the 11M mark, near the Twin Lakes Stables.
- After passing through a second tunnel under the Hutch, at the Eastchester/New Rochelle border, we emerge into Nature Study Woods, our last park.
- After a mile and a half run in these woods we exit at Webster Avenue and Flandreau Road. The race finishes with a 1/4 mile run down Flandreau to New Rochelle High School and a finish on the track.
These are the elevation changes:
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