Mar 6, 2010 - Black Mountain, NC

Second Annual 6k and 15k Trail races to benefit Earth Voyage's World Olympiad of Water. Please note that the date of this event has been changed to March 6. This is due to the condition of the trails from last months harsh weather. Friday, March 5th. Packet Pick-Up in Blue Ridge Center Lobby from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Pasta Buffet Dinner from 6:30 PM to 7:15 PM Race Talk and WOW Overview from 7:15 PM to 7:45 PM Saturday....March 6th 9:30 AM Start for 15k 10:00 AM Start for 6k Address: YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly 84 Blue Ridge Circle Black Mountain NC 28711 Directions: Two miles off Interstate 40, fifteen miles east of Asheville. Traveling on I-40 take Exit 64, “Black Mountain/Montreat” and turn south on Highway 9. Proceed less than one-half mile and go straight on Blue Ridge Road. Travel .9 mile and turn left at small Blue Ridge Assembly sign, then proceed to our entrance. FEES: $35 for the 6k by Feb.26, then late fee of $40 online and March 5 at WOW pasta dinner & race day. $45 for the 15k by Feb. 26, then late fee of $50 online and March 5 at pasta dinner & race day. Both races start and finish at beautiful Laurel Lake on the 2,000 acre wooded campus of Blue Ridge Assembly. Both courses are almost all trail, mostly double-track. Fee includes race packet, all-you-can-eat pasta dinner, custom T-shirt, snacks, water and energy drinks at aid stations, door prizes and loads of fun. A huge Thank You goes to you for helping to benefit WOW by your participation in these events. You are certainly appreciated. Awards will be given to the top male and female finishers, female and male masters (40+), grandmasters (50+) and veterans (60+) finishers and in each 5 year age groups. Need a place to stay Friday night? Blue Ridge Assembly is offering mountain cabins for Splashdown runners! Cabins sleep up to eight, include all sheets and bedding, cookware, hot showers, working fireplaces and free fire wood. The cost is $150 per cabin. Hotel-like rooms are also available in the Blue Ridge Center for $75 and sleep up to three. Email William Harwood at splashdownrace@aol.com for any questions about the race or to reserve a cabin or a room. He also has info for campsites. For registration and other race questions email Sue & Gary Butts, buttsarunnin@aol.com, Butts A'runnin Race Enterprises or call 704-880-4561. To get a mail-in application email: buttsarunnin@aol.com and send registration fee and application to Butts A'runnin, P. O. Box 6872, Statesville, NC 28687. Whether you're running the 6k or the 15k, you're in for a treat as the trail twists and turns around a mountain lake, goes through rhododendron tunnels and up, up, up the mountain. For the 6k, you'll come back down the trails at the second aid station. But, for the 15k crowd, you'll go up, up, up some more to the ridge line of the mighty Swannanoas. Your destination is High Windy, the highest peak of the range at 4,270, a nearly two thousand foot total elevation gain. Mount Mitchell will be visible in the distance. In either race, enjoy your return downhill of which you've earned every inch. Your destination is the start/finish line at Lake Laurel and the roaring campfire, hot soup and good cheer that you'll find there! The Splashdown to WOW raises money for the 2nd annual World Olympiad of Water, an event for area 5th through 8th graders to learn about world water issues while simultaneously being empowered to do something about those issues. On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd, teams of students from Asheville-area schools will compete in various, water-related challenges at Blue Ridge Assembly. At stake will be the funds raised by the Splashdown to WOW. Successful teams will earn water-related grants for their schools to install great stuff such as low-flush toilets, rain barrels and rainwater swales for their parking lots.

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