{
  "meta": {
    "name": "RunDida Marathon API",
    "version": "1.1",
    "generated": "2026-11-05",
    "website": "https://rundida.com"
  },
  "marathon": {
    "id": "tobaccoroad2027",
    "slug": "tobacco-road",
    "tier": 2,
    "name": {
      "en": "2027 Tobacco Road Marathon - Mar 14",
      "ja": "2027 タバコロードマラソン - 3月14日",
      "zh": "2027 烟草之路马拉松 - 3月14日"
    },
    "date": "2027-03-14T07:00:00-04:00",
    "timezone": "America/New_York",
    "city": "Cary",
    "country": "US",
    "theme": "tobacco-road-trail",
    "defaultPersonality": "competitive",
    "featured": false,
    "status": "upcoming",
    "weather": {
      "avgTempC": 9.9,
      "avgTempF": 50,
      "humidity": 77,
      "windKmh": 12.9,
      "precipPct": 30,
      "conditions": "Cool, often crisp mid-March North Carolina morning — prime PR and BQ weather"
    },
    "course": {
      "type": "Out-and-back",
      "elevationGain": 220,
      "profile": "A flat, fast, USATF-certified course built for Boston qualifying and PRs. The marathon starts and finishes at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, runs about 2.5 miles of gently rolling paved neighborhood road, then spends the bulk of the race — roughly 21 miles — out-and-back on the American Tobacco Trail, a converted rail-trail greenway that runs straight through shaded pine forest. Because the trail follows an old railroad bed, its grades are gentle and steady: inclines are gradual, declines are smooth, and the tree canopy gives near-constant shade. As an out-and-back the course is net-flat (about 0 ft net change, with roughly 220 m / 722 ft of total climbing spread evenly over the two directions), so it sits far below Boston's 1,500-foot net-loss threshold and times count fully toward BQ with no downhill adjustment. That flat, forgiving profile plus cool early-spring weather makes Tobacco Road a perennial Boston-qualifier and PR destination — about 12.4% of marathon finishers qualified for Boston in 2026 (12.6% in 2025, 13.3% in 2024), and the race has historically run closer to 18%. USATF-certified.",
      "terrain": "Mixed surface — about 5 miles of paved road at the start and finish, with the central ~21 miles on the American Tobacco Trail's crushed-granite (compacted screenings) greenway"
    },
    "links": {
      "page": "https://rundida.com/marathon/tobacco-road/",
      "countdown": "https://rundida.com/tools/marathon-countdown/#marathon=tobaccoroad2027",
      "api": "https://rundida.com/api/marathons/tobacco-road.json",
      "allMarathons": "https://rundida.com/api/marathons.json"
    },
    "schema": {
      "@context": "https://schema.org",
      "@type": "SportsEvent",
      "name": "2027 Tobacco Road Marathon - Mar 14",
      "startDate": "2027-03-14T07:00:00-04:00",
      "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled",
      "sport": "Marathon Running",
      "location": {
        "@type": "Place",
        "name": "Cary",
        "address": {
          "@type": "PostalAddress",
          "addressLocality": "Cary",
          "addressCountry": "US"
        }
      },
      "endDate": "2027-03-14T18:00:00.000Z",
      "organizer": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "Sunrise Running Company",
        "url": "https://tobaccoroadmarathon.com/"
      },
      "offers": {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "url": "https://tobaccoroadmarathon.com/register",
        "priceCurrency": "USD",
        "price": "90",
        "availability": "https://schema.org/LimitedAvailability"
      }
    }
  }
}