Course Description:
This 4 mile run is a little over one loop around Sodom Pond. The race starts at the electrical pole on the road
across from the Adamant Co-op about 50 yards to the left of the Co-op.
Shortly after the start, take a left onto Center Road. At 1.2 miles, take a left onto Sibley Road.
At 2.1 miles, take a left onto Sodom Pond Road. Follow that road back to the finish at the street sign on the left
about 50 yards past the starting line and directly across from the Co-Op.
Course Description:
The start is at a painted line on the road even with the fifth light pole on the west side of the horseshoe entrance to the state offiice complex. The finish is near the first flagpole.
Course Description:
The start is at a painted line on the road even with the fifth light pole on the west side of the horseshoe entrance to the state offiice complex. The turnaround is also marked with a painted line on the road at the white half-dome shed before mailbox #6097. The finish is near the first flagpole.
Please note: You may run either Autumn Onion course unless the construction that has been in progress on the new Siboinebi bike path course has not been finished.
Course Descriptions:
New Siboinebi bike path course:
The new Autumn Onion course is on the new section of the bike path, the Siboinebi path, east of Montpelier. The race is an out and back with the start/finish between the Civic Center and the beginning of the bike path on Route 2. The start/finish is .10 mile toward the bike path from the Civic Center; there is a mark painted on the road with '5K' under it. The turnaround is just before the path crosses Barre St. across from Barr Hill.
Original course:
The start is at the right edge of the Onion River Outdoors building. From Langdon, turn right onto Elm Street, left on Court, past the State House onto Baldwin. Turn left on Bailey, right onto the bikepath, turnaround is marked with lime on the bikepath past the Peace Park, back on the bikepath to Taylor Street, left on Taylor, right on State Street, left onto Elm, right on Langdon, and finish at Onion River Outdoors where the race started. The course is GPS measured.
Course Description:
The start is at the first turn on the Montpelier High School track. It is marked by orange flagging on the fence adjacent to the bike path. Take two complete laps clockwise on the track. Start a third lap and exit the track on the left past the bleachers and at the area where the track turns, cross the field to the dirt drive on the side of the high school. Follow the dirt drive to the beginning of the bike path at the front of the school. Take a left on the bike path. Follow the bike path to its end just past the I-89 overpass and turn around at the end of the path. The turn is marked by orange flagging on the sign to the right of the bike path. Retrace your steps by running the length of the bike path back to the front of the school. Take a right at the beginning of the path, pick up the dirt drive and follow it to the short stretch on the field until you get back to the track. Take a right on the track and head directly to the finish line (same as the start line) without circling the track.
Course Description:
Start .12 miles up Martin Road from Haggett Rd at the pink surveyors tape. Run down Martin to Haggett Rd. Bear L onto Haggett,
then L onto Adamant Rd at the Adamant Coop. Make a quick R onto Sodom Pond Rd. At the end of Sodom Pond,
turn L on Sibley, which turns into Putnam at a bend. At the 4 corners stop sign, turn R up Snow Hill/Dodge Rd.
At the end of Dodge Rd, turn R onto Center Rd. At the end of Center Rd back in Adamant, turn R onto Adamant Rd.
Go uphill and then down on Adamant Rd 1.6 miles and turn L onto Fowler Rd at the triangle with Singleton.
At the next triangle, turn L up Bliss Pond Rd, then L onto County Rd and L onto Martin Rd.
The finish is at the end of Martin where it meets Haggett, just past the start line.
Course Description:
The official course starts at the People's United Bank sign in front of the bank on State St.
Run E on State St, turn L onto Main St. Run around the roundabout and back on Main and State, ending at the start line.
The official distance was measured running across the apron of the roundabout,
but runners will need to act safely with cars present, so you may not be able to take the shortest official course.