Today I read a story in a Runner’s World special issue (unfortunately not online, though excerpted here, and not unlike this other RW story on the race) about the Dipsea Race, a 7.5 mile trail race every June in Marin County, California, from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach – up and down and up and down and up and down the hills between that town and the ocean. The route sounds like it makes for a phenomenal run, and an even better race, thanks to a unique handicap start system that, in 2010, saw an 8-year-old girl and a 68-year-old woman vie to be the first one across the finish line. The little girl won!
I’m adding either the run or, better, the race to my list of must-do athletic endeavors. A great video on it: