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Apr 3, 2025, 9:26:39 PMApr 3

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Hi Runners,

This Saturday, April 5th, we will start our long run at 6:30 a.m. to run my favorite route - Tobacco Road. This route can be 8, 10, or 12 miles long depending on where you loop back. This route has roadside, dirt road, some sidewalk, paved trail along Cow Road, and campus roads at the end if you go 10 or 12 miles. Go to Westside Park to get 14. There are water stops every 2 or 3 miles, 3 have bathrooms, 1 or 2 at convenience stores you could buy gatorade. Remember START POINT: We will meet and start at UF in front of Phillips Performing Arts Center, close to road - where we usually start for the run out to Hawthorne Trail. Check out the route map on MapMyRun but not that starting place: 13.91 mi Tobacco road and Westside Park http://www.mapmyrun.com/us/gainesville-fl/tobacco-road-and-westside-park-route-3424693

Breakfast Club - we will text when we finish so anyone can join, probably 43rd St Deli.

Races: FTC Tobacco Road 5K and Brunch at Squirrel Ridge Park on April 12th at 8 a.m. This race is free to FTC members and $20 for non-members. Register at runsignup.com Don't miss this: Spud Run in Hastings, April 26th! 5K, 10K, or both! Remember cabbage and potatoes when you finish and a Cabbage, Potato and Bacon Festival in Hastings! We have a good group already signed up and we are bringing foods to share to celebrate after under the big tree. Also considering the following weekend is Fernandina Beach Shrimp Festival 5k, Saturday, May 3rd. The festival is great and so was last year's tie-dyed T shirt!

It feels like summer but Happy SPRING! is supposed to be back next week! Lots of great races all over Florida!