The gently rolling hills along the country roads of this small southern Minnesota town just outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are set for the 12th annual running of the Gear Western Country Half Marathon & 5K in the middle of October 2023, a race that will feature country music bands playing live at the post-race party and a cowboy hat at the finish line.
Organized and sponsored by Gear West Cross Country Ski and Run, an atheltic store on Wayzata Boulevard in Long Lake (which also lies along the southern shoreline of the lake that gives the town its name), the race will follow an out-and-back course that starts and finishes at Gear West (on 1786 W. Wayzata Boulevard).
