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Saturday, 19 February 2011 04:00

Minnesota's Best Run Course...

By Darin Wieneke

Holy frijoles, the best run course poll results are in and the top vote getter might be the most blistering, breakneck and dizzying run course in all of Minnesota. That run course, garnering 51.4 percent of the votes, is of course, Manitou. The 3.1 mile out and back course..

along the shore of White Bear Lake produces the fastest minute per mile average for many of its participants on an annual basis. Heck, I even averaged 6:08/mile pace in 2009 after eating 6 empanadas (fresh from the St. Paul Farmer