2027 Tobacco Road Marathon - Mar 14

A flat, fast, USATF-certified course built for Boston qualifying and PRs. The marathon starts and finishes at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, runs about 2.5 miles of gently rolling paved neighborhood road, then spends the bulk of the race — roughly 21 miles — out-and-back on the American Tobacco Trail, a converted rail-trail greenway that runs straight through shaded pine forest. Because the trail follows an old railroad bed, its grades are gentle and steady: inclines are gra +220m elevation