Great Spillway Classic Trail Run

• Date: July 20, 2008
• Address: , Norco, Louisiana Get directions
• Country: United States
• Race type: Run (3 Mile)
• Distances: Run (3.00 miles)
• Organization: New Orleans Track Club
• Website: http://www.runnotc.org/races/2008/spillway.html
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• Description: The 2nd largest "Trail Run" in the USA offers a fun, scenic and challenging course. The first 1-1/4 miles is atop the Spillway levee. Then the course turns down into the Spillway and through the "Gauntlet" The Gauntlet usually provides the most mud, water and fun section of the course sometimes at the expenses of ones shoes. (Do not wear new shoes for this race.!) Should the gauntlet claim your shoes, please keep digging to retrieve them, shoes must be worn at all times during the race. The course then turns parallel to the canal and continues back towards the finish line near the pavilion. Along the way you may encounter hard sandy surface, watery troughs, muddy sections, slippery sections, hairpin turns, a log jump or two, a wooden bridge that you may go across or around of. There is heavy forest canopy throughout most of the main trail. New this year, will be signage on the course for those that tend to wander off to keep them on course. Over the past several years, the New Orleans Metro Area Mountain Bike Association (NOMAMBO) has created a mountain bike course on this trail. They have done an excellent job in constructing and maintaining the trail.
• Members who are scheduled to race: Comet