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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The American Tobacco Trail
The American Tobacco Trail (or ATT for short) is one of the few flat places to run in the triangle area. It runs along an old railroad bed, and the surface varies from hard-packed dirt to pavement. Although the trail is 22 miles long, I have never covered the whole thing. I've always started from the parking lot located on White Oak Church Rd. From here, it's ~10.5 miles out-and-back to the right (marked every half mile... you start between the 5.5-mile and 5-mile markers). I have no idea how far the trail extends to the left (the mile makers are harder to see and not as regularly spaced... I know the 8-mile marker is there). One of our teammates' aunts is involved with the Hope's Hope 5K, which is at the ATT (9/29, 8:30AM)... would be great for setting a PR! #20
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Hi TAF Racing,
ReplyDeleteAll of the the mile markers are installed and are indeed every 1/2 mile north of White Oak Church Road. Look on the fences if you think they should be there and they aren't especially noticeable. We've installed markers north to Mile 13 which is located almost directly across from the Chancellor's Ridge bridge about 1/3 mile north of the Fayetteville Road overpass.
See the map at www.triangletrails.org to see the locations of the markers.
Happy Trails,
Bill Bussey
Trail Marker guy
Cool! Thank you for letting us know and for all your work... the ATT is one of my favorite spots to run!
ReplyDeleteI finally ran on the only 3 miles I had not covered before this summer when I ran from DBAP.
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