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RaceIndex has a GPS course file for Tri for a Cure (South Portland) 5K, so runners can inspect the route line on the map. Elevation charts and ascent figures appear only when that file includes usable elevation data.
The Tri for a Cure (South Portland) 5K is described as flat. The course notes also call it 15-mile lollipop-shaped bike on flat-and-rolling urban roads via Fort Road and Route 77 in Scarborough.
The Tri for a Cure (South Portland) 5K route starts at Opening Ceremony at 7:30am, race begins at 8:00am ('feet in the water') and finishes at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) campus, South Portland. Underfoot, expect swim in a protected ocean cove (~62F, wetsuits used); bike and run on paved urban roads and paved pathways. It passes Spring Point Lighthouse, Bug Light Park, Casco Bay, Southern Maine Community College and Cape Elizabeth shoreline. 15-mile lollipop-shaped bike on flat-and-rolling urban roads via Fort Road and Route 77 in Scarborough.
Bike course is open to regular automotive traffic with traffic laws enforced; police-monitored at the Route 77 turn from Sawyer Road; run has a monitored intersection at Broadway and Benjamin Pickett.