So you like Strava Challenges? We have another for you! If you haven’t already, join the Sir Walter Running Strava club!
The 2025 Tour de Walter is off and running! We’ll announce a new challenge every Monday (or maybe Sunday night), and it will run through the following Saturday at Midnight. All of these are in celebration of the 2025 Sir Walter Miler, which will be held Friday, August 8th at Meredith. We’ll talk about these Strava Challenges of upcoming episodes of the Summer of Miles podcast, so make sure and subscribe!
What exactly is the Tour de Walter? This is the second of a 4 segment Challenge called the Tour de Walter, in honor of the Tour de France. Everyone that competes all 4 segments will get a Tour de Walter koozie, and the Male and Female with the lowest overall time will get VIP seating at the 2025 Sir Walter Miler.
NOTE: These runs are unsupervised, so please run at your own risk (and be careful)!
2025 Tour de Walter – Stage 2: Marlowe Mountain
What is it? The second segment of the 2025 Tour de Walter is “Marlowe Mountain,” which is a segment that goes up Lassiter Mill Road to Marlowe Road and then onto the Crabtree Creek Greenway, where it finishes back where it started. The segment is approximately 1.7 miles, which is a bit shorter than last week!
Where is it? The best place to park would be Lassiter Mill Park, which is located at 3362 Lassiter Falls Cir, Raleigh, NC 27609. The start is across the street, right by the Crabtree Creek Greenway.
Where is the start (and where do I run)? Start parallel to the Crabtree Creek Trail sign and head up the sidewalk a few hundred meters before turning right on Marlowe Road. You’ll take Marlowe down to the Crabtree Creek Trail greenway entrance and head to the right. From there, you’ll finish back where you started, making a big loop of about 1.7 miles.
Where do I finish? At the same “Crabtree Creek Trail’ sign that you started from, only coming from a different direction.
When should I run? The segment is shady, but it’s been hot lately, so plan accordingly. Don’t run in the middle of the day. Be careful. Take some Tailwind in advance! You have between now and Saturday at midnight.
Where will I see the standings? See below and filter accordingly. And we’ll update the cumulative weekly!
NEW THIS YEAR: After you run the segment, enter your results here!
Update your Privacy Settings! If you want your run to register on the segment standings below, you must go into your run in Strava after it populates and adjust the privacy settings on that run (to not hide the start and finish).
The Official Strava Segment: strava.com/segments/39622242 (Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/3379642393381249946)
What do I win? We will have a random drawing for 2 Sir Walter Running shirts! We will post with next week’s segment.
Week 1 – Awesome Possum Results
| Name | Gender | Time |
Clayson Shumway |
Male | 0:36:16 |
| Silas Thompson | Male | 0:36:49 |
| Jason Endries | Male | 0:42:15 |
| Josh Dwight | Male | 0:42:44 |
| Isaac Cowell | Male | 0:44:50 |
| Spencer Husen | Male | 0:45:45 |
| Daniel Moreno | Male | 0:46:07 |
| Alex Rosebower | Male | 0:46:16 |
| Matthew Denoncourt | Male | 0:46:27 |
| Larz Robison | Male | 0:46:43 |
| Carisa DeKalb |
Female | 0:48:37 |
| Marshall Ward | Male | 0:50:16 |
| tommy boles | Male | 0:51:45 |
| Alex Rogers | Male | 0:52:30 |
| Kate Sanborn | Female | 0:54:04 |
| Ziggy Struna | Male | 0:54:14 |
| Danny Sodano | Male | 0:55:26 |
| April Bailey | Female | 0:55:59 |
| Theo Jass | Male | 0:56:56 |
| Tony Vrana | Male | 0:57:27 |
| Kyle Tolbert | Male | 0:58:22 |
| Matt Dey | Male | 0:58:54 |
| Kristen Giombi | Female | 1:00:18 |
| Matt Robinson | Male | 1:01:05 |
| Matthew Bissette | Male | 1:03:31 |
| Julie Bryer | Female | 1:04:01 |
| Kevin Rumsey | Male | 1:05:48 |
| Jeremy Teed | Male | 1:08:25 |
| Jonathan Duren | Male | 1:08:50 |
| Chelsea Cutright | Female | 1:09:59 |
| Chelsea Cutright | Female | 1:09:59 |
| Jeremy Fehlman | Male | 1:11:00 |
| Alex Peterson | Male | 1:11:08 |
| Connor Sweeney | Male | 1:12:48 |
| Neal Lord | Male | 1:12:51 |
| Wes Lewis | Male | 1:16:01 |
| Colette Bauer | Female | 1:17:00 |
| Ben Christoph | Male | 1:23:43 |
| Brandy Burns | Female | 1:37:30 |
| Susan Carl | Female | 1:52:28 |
Week 1 drawing winners are Connor Sweeney and Colette Bauer. Please contact us to get your non-transferrable entry to the 2025 Raleigh RunDown Downhill Mile!
Have questions? Let us know: SirWalterRunning@gmail.com