Map of course

The 2005 CIS race course at Point Pleasant Park will deliver challenging, tough and spectator friendly races. 

The course starts mere meters from the Atlantic Ocean at the very point of Point Pleasant Park. The first three-quarters of a kilometer is run on grass along the shore’s edge before the race moves onto the trails that wind through the park’s interior.

After the first few hundred meters on these trails, the course turns sharply to the left and the runners negotiate their first hill, a steep 80m incline over challenging footing. At the top the runners turn left again and proceed several hundred meters along a main park road groomed with crusherdust. Racers will continue about 300m down the road, descending slightly.

The runners begin their next climb when they turn left off this road and begin to work their way up and through  the woodchip trails. The course reaches its highest point as the runners cross the grass lawns of historic Cambridge Battery. The competitors make a left out of the old fort followed by another left back onto woodchip trails. After another several hundred meters on the wood chip and wood path trails, the course returns to the crusherdust road.

The loop concludes with a sharp left down a steep incline and back onto the grass section that runs along the coast.

Expect a variety of terrain types, and a course that twists and turns frequently but not excessively. This is a spikes course.

The course, with only a few minor modifications, has been the Dalhousie home course since and including the 1993 CIS Cross Country Championships.