Badwater Cape Fear
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Mar 23, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Badwater Cape Fear
Bald Head Island NC, 28461
USA
Entry Fee $239
(Lowest or Early Registration)
Entry Fee 2 $269
(Highest or Late Registration)
Prize Money: no
Distance(s):
- 50K
- 50M
Series: Badwater Ultra Cup
Type: Ultra
Participant Limit: 200
High Point: 25
Percent of the course on un-paved trails: 80%
First Year of the Event: 2014
Men's Record: Michael Borst 6:29:00
Women's Record: Anne Wheatley 7:09:00
Description:
The BADWATER® ultra running experience returns to the (B)east Coast when BADWATER CAPE FEAR race takes place each year in March on Bald Head Island, North Carolina.
With 50km and 51-mile race options, Badwater® Cape Fear features a twelve-mile warm-up on the car-free, one-lane-wide roads of Bald Head Island, followed by either 19 or 39 miles of running on the wild and secluded sandy beach between Cape Fear and Fort Fisher. The race is held along the Atlantic Seaboard with spectacular views of the Frying Pan Shoals to the east and wild and undeveloped Cape Fear River marshlands to the west. Running this remote coast is a dramatic, invigorating, and inspiring manner in which to experience the Cape Fear region in all its grandeur!
This exquisite natural setting is the perfect antidote to the “real world” and a wonderful counterpart to the desert sands and mountains of Death Valley and Anza-Borrego Desert featured in the two West Coast BADWATER® races.
Bald Head Island and nearby Southport, NC (featured in the film “Safe Haven”) are ideal vacation get-away spots for the entire family, located less than one hour from Wilmington, NC and its major airport with American, Delta, and United Airlines service. (Flying into Myrtle Beach, SC is another convenient option.) Due to the remarkable beauty and quaint southern charm of this area, as well as this impeccable, authentic BADWATER race experience, many Badwater Cape Fear participants are now making this race an annual pilgrimage!
Registration is at UltraSignUp.com
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Past Event Dates
Held on Mar 23, 2024
Held on Mar 18, 2023
Held on Mar 19, 2022
Held on Oct 02, 2021
Held on Mar 21, 2020
Held on Mar 16, 2019
Held on Mar 17, 2018
Held on Mar 18, 2017
Held on Mar 19, 2016
Held on Mar 21, 2015
Held on Mar 22, 2014
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