2027 edition
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Modelled energy-cost change 0.9% versus flat · net elevation 1 m
Decision summary
Lower than 36% of comparable mapped races
7:00:00 total limit divided by distance. Check gun/chip timing and intermediate limits; allow time for stops.
Historical race-date favourability, not a forecast
Stored GPS route
Quick answers
raceindex.org has a GPS course file for Tobacco Road Marathon and Half Marathon, 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 Tobacco Road Marathon and Half Marathon route has 209 m of ascent, 208 m of descent and an estimated 0.9% grade-adjusted pace penalty versus a flat route.
The Tobacco Road Marathon and Half Marathon route starts at USA Baseball / Thomas Brooks Park, 7445 Green Hope School Road, Cary, NC 27519 and finishes at USA Baseball / Thomas Brooks Park, Cary, NC (start and finish at the same venue). Underfoot, expect mixed: paved road start (Morrisville Parkway) plus crushed-granite American Tobacco Trail; the half marathon includes about 8 miles on the ATT. The setting includes parkland and forest. The course races over the American Tobacco Trail, a former railroad corridor converted to a rails-to-trails greenway.
Pace Teams provided.
Its normalised GAP factor is 0.9% slower than a flat course, with about 209 m of total ascent.