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Three laps from Crowders Ridge. Laps one and two run the full route out to the Boulders Access turnaround and back. Lap three runs to Wolf's Den, then turns around to the finish.
Beast of the East is a December ultra at Crowders Mountain State Park in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, about 30 miles west of Charlotte. Runners choose a half marathon, marathon, 50 miler, 100K or 100 miler, all from Crowders Ridge. The route climbs the Crowders and Pinnacle ridgelines and turns at the Boulders Access aid station. The trails are technical, with rocks, roots and some scrambling, plus smoother single track and wide gravel.
3 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.
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This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.
Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.
We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.
We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.
Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.
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I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.
