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ful local residents will keep you from wandering off the course. At several points, girl scouts will be passing out water, and the rescue squad will be perched on Lee’s Hill for the faint of heart.
Don’t worry, you’ll be on the home stretch then, and its (almost) all downhill from there.
Deputy Jackson will turn you left in Washington, and you’ll go right to the courthouse on Gay Street and a big finish where the screaming multitude of spectators will cheer you to the rooftops (which as you know aren’t all that high).
Since its inaugural run two decades ago, the Fodderstack has become a high point in the local calendar of events. Both long-time local runners, Rappahannock wannabes and the odd dedicated runner travel to Rappahannock for what is often the first great day of Spring. Our legal team (actually the county attorney, in an offhand remark over lunch) has advised us that a guarantee of great weather would be injudicious, so we will simply add that there has been only one rainy Fodderstack in the last 10 years. Perhaps not coincidentally, the times were
See RACE, Page A4
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