Win a Free Entry into America’s Toughest Road Marathon
The Blue Ridge Marathon in Roanoke, VA, bills itself as “America’s Toughest Road Marathon”. With over 7,200 feet of elevation change, a lot of runners would agree. The Blue Ridge Marathon has a friendly competition with the Mt. Lemmon Marathon in Tucson, AZ, which has 6,000 feet of elevation change and finishes at over 8,000 feet, over which race is the toughest.
Last year the Blue Ridge Marathon offered Mt. Lemmon Marathon finishers free entry into their race to help settle the dispute. Most agreed that the uphill and downhill of the Blue Ridge Marathon made it tougher than the Mt. Lemmon race. I’ve embedded a video describing the race below (watch for former Marine Sgt. Jeremy Soles running the half marathon in a gas mask to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project at the 0:49 mark)
Blue Ridge Marathon: America’s Toughest Road Marathon from Pete Eshelman on Vimeo.
If you are looking for a challenge, the organizers of the Blue Ridge Marathon are offering one of the readers of this blog a free entry into the race, held on April 21, 2012. If you don’t win the free entry, you can get 15% off the $80 registration fee, register before December 31st and use the code “Tough”.
To enter the contest to win a free entry into the Blue Ridge Marathon, you can do any of the following:
- Reblog this post in Tumblr
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- Retweet this post in Twitter
- Link to this post on your (non-Tumblr) blog and send me the link
- Subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed via email
If you do more than one of these things, you will get an additional chance to win for each. Please make sure that there is some way to contact you if you win and check your Tumblr, Facebook, or email Inbox regularly. Good luck!
Update: Congratulations to Kimberly Warren (@kimi_joy) of Comstock Park, MI, on winning a free entry into the Blue Ridge Marathon.
Disclaimer: I received an offer of a free entry into the Blue Ridge Marathon
