This Trail Marathon Is Deep Inside Antelope Canyon

Past spring, Harold Bennally, a 37-12 months-aged Diné ultrarunner, crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon carrying a pair of substantial-topped crimson leather-based moccasins—likely the 1st time any one experienced run the famed race in common Diné footwear. To increase funds to mail him to the function, Bennally organized the Canyon X 50 percent Marathon: a race as a result of a remote portion of Antelope Canyon in LeChee, Arizona, considerably from the vacationer-large decreased part. 

The inaugural function, in 2018, was a achievements, with 98 runners traveling from across the Southwest to participate. Bennally and other organizers, together with the Purple Earth Managing Business, which sponsors Native running functions and athletes, brought it back for a 2nd time very last slide. On a brisk day in November, 168 runners collected to run a 13-mile training course that climbed 1,800 feet across sandstone canyons and remote washes.