COURSE: Two score and twelve weeks ago (approximately a year), a suggestion was made to the directors of the Hit the Hay 5K to switch the race to a trail run.  Fewer weeks than that ago, the suggestion manifested itself into a nagging thought, which blossomed into yet another bad idea from the minds of Pretzel City Sports.  This time, however, the guilty party is not Ron Horn but his steadfast sidekick “Big” Wayne whom Ron has suggested is as sick as himself.  “Big” Wayne has taken the “compliment” and with encouragement from Ron and the people from the Hay Creek Watershed Association mapped out a kinder, gentler course.  The cracker jack team of geologists from PCS has determined the course has 20% FEWER rocks to stub your toes and 10% FEWER roots to trip over than some of their other courses.  Along it’s very runable 8 miles it DOES have plenty of downed trees, mostly double and triple track trails, 4 – 5 water crossings, two beautiful reservoirs, an abandoned quarry, washed out roads, two short technical down hills, an old railroad bed, decaying canal locks, a sustained climb, three water stops, a luxurious downhill, biting insects and a murderous climb, all in the forests that Daniel Boone himself trod as a strapping young lad.  The run starts and finishes in Rustic Park in Birdsboro, a great place for your “posse” to picnic this Labor Day weekend while you indulge your pioneering spirit on the trails.

ENTRY: For Trail Run; $25.00 if postmarked by August 12, 2008. Afterwards and day of race: $30.00

QUESTIONS?: Email: mjstell@haycreekwatershed.org or call 610-404-4292.

Registration Forms can be found at this link - http://haycreekwatershed.org/haytrailrunform-2008.pdf

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