Tobacco Road Marathon and Half Marathon

The Veradigm Tobacco Road Full Marathon features over 20 miles of the American Tobacco Trail (ATT). The rest of the course is flat and fast with a downhill finish. Up to 20 percent (in 2017; 15 percent in 2021) of our runners qualify for the legendary Boston Marathon! Less experienced runners benefit too as the fast, flat, energy-absorbing course and ideal temperatures averaging in the 40s and 50s Fahrenheit make it a great venue for your next personal record.

Over its history, the Tobacco Road Marathon has raised over $1.8M for charities including Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF), American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Hope For The Warriors, and Triangle Rails To Trails Conservancy. Thank you for running to help these worthwhile causes!

With most events in the world coming to an abrupt halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic just days before our planned 2020 Tobacco Road Marathon, we made the tough decision to cancel the in-person event and allow runners to run the distance virtually.  Furthermore, taking precautions due to the continued pandemic, our 2021 event was delayed from March, 2021, to the weekend of May 15-16, 2021.  That year, unlike the past and future, we ran the two distances on different days--the Full on Saturday and the Half on Sunday.  We were concerned about warm temperatures in North Carolina in May...especially for the runners running in the late morning/early afternoon, but the weather cooperated wonderfully with great running temperatures!

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