Race to

Robie Creek

"The Toughest Half Marathon in the Northwest"

By Race to Robie Creek IV, organizers decided to institute unusual starts.

Glen Woods, the 1962 state discus champion, threw a discus in the air, and when it landed in the middle of the road, 80 feet in front of the runners, the Race to Robie Creek began.

What was unusual about that? The composition of the discus for one thing, fashioned from flour and the ground-up remains of toads found in Rocky Canyon on the road to Robie Creek, so flattened by passing motor vehicles they could be picked up and sailed Frisbee-like through the air.

And so the Rocky Canyon Sail Toads, the group which produced the race, started a grand tradition.