APRIL 7, 2013
2013 12M Overall Results
2013 12M M/F Results
2013 50K Overall Results
2013 50K M/F Results
2013 Team Results
Complete Race Information
12M/50K Course Map
12M & 50K Course Descriptions
The race course will follow beautiful single track of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST) as it winds through the woods around Falls Lake in Raleigh, NC. The 50Km starts at 7AM and the 12M starts at 8AM.
The 12-mile course will be a point-to-point run starting at the end of Bayleaf Church Rd. and finishing at the Falls Lake dam. The 50-km course will be an out-and-back run starting and finishing at Blue Jay Point Park and turning around at the Falls Lake dam (same location as 12-m finish).
The MST, part of the NC State Park system, stretches 1000-miles across North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smokies to Jockey’s Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks. More than 500 miles of the official trail are now complete, and with temporary connectors on back roads people can now hike across the state.
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Race proceeds will benefit the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail who, 
with the help of dedicated volunteers, build and maintain the MST trail throughout the state as well as advocate and educate the importance of maintaining and securing our natural resources.
Check out what runners have said about the race!
2012 50K Results (Overall)
2012 50K Results (M/F)
2012 50K Age Group Results
2012 12M Results (Overall)
2012 12M Results (M/F)
2012 12M Age Group Results
2012 Team Results
PHOTOS! 12M, 50K Start, 50K Finish
2011 Overall Results
2011 Age Group Results
2011 Team Competition Results
2010 Overall Results
2010 Age Group Results
2010 Team Competition Results
3 Trackbacks
[...] I mentioned this last week but it bears repeating, in part because the $35 registration fee benefits a good cause — continued development of the 1,000-mile work-in-progress Mountains-to-Sea Trail, about half of which is finished — but also because timing-wise it’s perfect for the short-distance runner looking to up the ante. The run is along 12 miles of singletrack trail along the south shore of Falls Lake; if you run 10Ks or 5Ks, you may be thinking, “Shoot, that’s twice as far as I run,” — or four times as far! There’s something about trail running, though, that somehow makes 12 miles seem shorter. Perhaps it’s the scenery, perhaps it’s the fact that because you must focus on the trail, to avoid rocks and tree roots, you lose track of the time. (The latter also forces you to run a bit slower.) 5Ker today, on January 28th, a near-half-marathoner come April 10. More info, go here. [...]
[...] either. And this morning at 8 I’m going out with more than 100 other runners on the inaugural Mountains-to-Sea Trail 12-mile Challenge. That’s 12 miles on the rocky, rooty, twisty, turny Falls Lake section of the Mountains-to-Sea [...]
[...] How fast can you run 12 miles in the woods? In 1 hour, 17 minutes and 14 seconds, as demonstrated by overall race winner, 22-year-old Duncan Hope of Chapel Hill. (See full race results here.) [...]