1994 Triathlon Map
The Moonshiner Madness Marathon was a fall triathlon race held in Fayetteville during the latter 1980s and early 1990s that was approximately the length of a marathon. It was run until a heavy storm on the morning of the race one year forced its cancellation that day.
The race began and ended at the Fayetteville Square. Participants started by running east from the square, into Spout Spring valley, south on Willow and then east out Huntsville Road to Crossover Road and then Wyman Road east again.
Runners switched to canoes at the old Wyman Bridge for the second leg of the race, going down the White River to Fox Run Landing, where canoers then ran uphill for 1 mile to the second exchange point.
They then switched to bicycles, riding out to Highway 45 and turning east, pedaling out to its intersection with Wyman Road and then turning around and coming back into town via Mission, Lafayette, Washington, Dickson and Block streets to return to the square.
Illustrator for this map is as yet unknown.
With the help of others, Fayetteville lawyer Jack Butt conceptualized and initiated the Moonshiner Madness Marathon in 1982 as an anchor event for Fayetteville Autumnfest, also initated that year by the same folks. The Marathon ran until at least 1994. Increasing cost and difficulty of logistics and diminishing entries caused the race organizers’ and sponsors’ decision to conclude the event. Autumnfest successfully continued until around 2000, when the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce took over its funds and operations and determined to invest the time and resources in a new community festival, “Bikes, Blues and Barbecue.”
Thanks so much for this great background on the organization of the race. And we have updated the cutline below the map to recognize you as the mapmaker.
I drew the map provided in this article, it is on the reverse of the race entry adn niformation form.