
DuPont Forest 12k Trail Race (2007)
This is a great, not too difficult 12k (7.4 miles) trail race. Mostly double track, not too much single track and some forest service roads. It has a great start – mostly flat to downhill for the first couple of miles. And since the race starts at 10:00 AM you can sleep in and still have plenty of time to get to DuPont Forest. This race has my favorite post-race food – thanks to Doc Chey’s Noodles, and is part of the Asheville Track Club Grand Prix Series.
This will be my sixth running of this race. I hope to see you there.
The race starts and finishes at Guion Farm parking area. Here is a map:

DuPont Forest Driving Map
And here are directions:
DIRECTIONS TO DUPONT TRAIL RACE
Take I-26 to Exit 40 (the airport), and take highway 280 to Pisgah Forest. Turn left on US 64 in Pisgah Forest. Travel east on US 64 for 3.7 miles to Texaco station in Penrose. Turn right on Crab Creek Road and continue 4.3 miles and turn right on Dupont Road. Go approximately .5 mile, then left on Sky Valley Road. Go approximately 2 miles to parking lot on right hand side. Registration, packet pick-up, and race start are all here.
Online registration is available at IMAthlete.
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Blue Ridge Parkway Run – February 21, 2012 – Asheville, NC
Blue Ridge Parkway from RT 191 South (and back)
I used to do this run regularly about 5/6 years ago. I only do it in periods during which this stretch of the Parkway is closed, as it is now. It’s a great opportunity for some long slow distance and hill training with no vehicles and often no other human being (as was the case today). Great views on the way back of Downtown Asheville and the Biltmore Estate. I did this once at dusk and that was spectacular.
Here are the details from My Garmin. This might be a good training run for the Bearwallow Beast, although this run has an elevation gain of just over 900 while “the Beast” climbs 1,300.
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