Course Description
The run courses for the Viking Dash 5K & 10K are a combination of wide hard packed logging roads and single track, semi technical trails.
All the courses are basically flat.
All three distances start out on the logging roads and then transition to the single track trails. There are two distinct trails that we'll be utilizing; the Canebreak Trail and the Gator Loop. The wide logging roads allow us to "thin the herd" at the start of the races before participants reach the single-track trail sections.
5K: (1 Loop)
Participants will run down the main logging road to a turnaround sandwich board and then return to the start location. That turnaround sign will be located .32 miles down the road, so participants will run the first .64 miles on the logging road before entering the Canebreak Trail. At mile 1.65 participants will exit the Canebreak Trail, cross over the logging road and enter the Gator Loop. The most technical part of the run course will be the section from mile 2.25 to mile 2.75. Participants will exit the Gator Loop almost at mile 3 - with the final 250 yards being back on the logging road.
10K: (2 Loops)
The 10K will start in a different location than the 5K and the Half Marathon - very close but going out a different logging road at the start. Participants will run down the initial logging road to a turnaround sandwich board and then back to the start (.2 miles down - .2 miles back). At that point participants will transition over to the main logging road and run down to another turnaround sandwich board and then back to the start location (adding another .9 miles). At that point, participants will be 1.3 miles into their race when they enter the CanebreakTrail. At mile 2.3 participants will exit the Canebreak Trail, cross over the logging road and enter the Gator Loop. The most technical part of the run course will be the section from mile 2.9 to mile 3.4. Exiting the Gator Loop, participants will run 250 yards down the logging road towards the Finish Line, where they will re-enter the Canebreak Trail for lap 2.
Note: Participants only do the logging road segments at the beginning of the race - not again before lap 2.
