Tag: Outer Banks Marathon

Marathon runners jog along the Kitty Hawk multi-use path by Kitty Hawk Bay.Just before the weather breaks and becomes bitterly cold with 30 mile per hour winds, we got the Outer Banks Marathon in yesterday. And the weather was a close to perfect as it could have been.There were actually two long

The joy of running the Outer Banks Marathon. Still smiling early in the 26.3 mile journey.A Beautiful Day Greets Marathon and Half Marathon RunnersCombine near perfect conditions with very good runners and the result is some

Runners passing the Wright Brothers Monument.It's Veteran's Day Weekend, which means on the Outer Banks it's also Outer Banks Marathon Weekend.What is now Marathon Weekend began as just the Marathon in 2006 with two goals in

Overwash from a March storm made Moor Shore Road impassable.Last month a storm blew into the Outer Banks from the west. As Outer Banks storms go, it wasn't particularly memorable.The wind blew hard from the west; there was

Marathoners on the multi-use path by Kitty Hawk Bay.It would be hard to imagine better weather for the 11th running of the Outer Banks marathon. Cool temperatures at the start on Kitty Hawk Road, almost no wind for the entire

Trail in Kitty Hawk Woods.Back in 1584, Arthur Barlowe, who was part explorer and part public relations agent for Sir Walter Raleigh looked out over the Outer Banks and wrote when he returned to England, "Under the banke or hill...

By any standards, 2015 was a good year on the Outer Banks. Final figures aren't in yet, but unless November and December post a negative number of people coming to the Outer Banks, visitor spending will set new records. The housing market is back on its feet again. There has been steady improvement