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“For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it (running) is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight. For them, sport is not a test but a therapy, not a trial but a reward, not a question but an answer”—Dr. George Sheehan, former medical editor of Runners’ World magazine.
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Those runners that Dr. Sheehan describes will be at the starting line in Flint Hill this Saturday, April 21, for the sixth Fodderstack Classic. The 10 kilometers over Rappahannock’s rolling countryside between Flint Hill and Washington offers serious runners the challenge of Lee’s Hill and the not-so-serious competitors the beauty of a spring morning in the country.
To local contenders who want both the challenge and the beauty, the Fodderstack provides another added attraction. Certainly, they dream of being first to break the tape but their goal is winning the Eva B. Smith Memorial, given in honor of the former clerk of the court who helped organize the first Fodderstack and awarded to the first Rappahannock man and woman to finish.
Perrenial favorites will be back this year but they face strong challenges for the coveted trophies.
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