Greek Festival 5k – Course Preview
In little over a week, everyone will be heading into the Dilworth area for the Greek Festival 5k.
To my knowledge there is no expected road work that will impact the course but just for kicks maybe we should suggest to the Run for Your Life guys that we run the course backwards. Just kidding Tim.
No, for those of you that are interested, the Greek course is one of the fastest in Charlotte.
You have a nice sloping downhill for the first mile. The 2nd mile has some uphill along East Kingston before turning left on Lyndhurst. Then you take another left onto Worthington. This will be the place where you will want to turn it loose. Then you have one final Dilworth loop before heading back up East Blvd to the finish. This is one of the toughest finishes around because you can see the finish line and will most likely be in oxygen debt the entire way. Every year that I have run this race, I always reach East Blvd taking shallow breathes and legs that feel like they are going to fall off.
But, I always enjoy running this race because of the number of good runners that come out. The more runners that you have around you the more likely you are to be pulled along.
If you have not registered yet, you still can sign up online or you can sign at the store through Friday. However, I'd avoid waiting until the last minute. You might not get a T-shirt.
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