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09/22/2022 09:55AM
portage races
Rachel Brophy
ELY – This weekend nearly 600 athletes will arrive in Ely to run… and run. Roughly 400 of them will take part in the 13.1 mile-long Boundary Waters Bank half-marathon, while close to 200 will be running all 26.2 miles of the Ely marathon.
As if running a half or full marathon isn’t challenge enough, more than 20 racers will be attempting to do it Ely style— carrying canoes. For those not schooled in the language of the portage trail, that’s 4,195-rods for the half-marathon and an impressive 8,390-rod portage for the marathon. Anyone who’s ever portaged a canoe even a handful of rods knows that every rod counts.
Rachel Brophy
ELY – This weekend nearly 600 athletes will arrive in Ely to run… and run. Roughly 400 of them will take part in the 13.1 mile-long Boundary Waters Bank half-marathon, while close to 200 will be running all 26.2 miles of the Ely marathon.
As if running a half or full marathon isn’t challenge enough, more than 20 racers will be attempting to do it Ely style— carrying canoes. For those not schooled in the language of the portage trail, that’s 4,195-rods for the half-marathon and an impressive 8,390-rod portage for the marathon. Anyone who’s ever portaged a canoe even a handful of rods knows that every rod counts.
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