Clockwise from top left: 1981 winners Tom Shaw, Mark Mitchell, Greg Sykes
and Ronnie Stauffer. Jim Knapp, Jim Mincher and Don Plyer tackle the Market
Street run in 1979. Mincher taking off from the South Harbor Island Mini Park,
1979. Competitors ready their bikes in Wrightsville Beach Park early Saturday
morning, before the race begins, 2010. Competitors finish the first leg of
the race at SeaPath Marina, 2009. Mincher, 1979. Sally Meserole runs down
Causeway Drive, 1979 (notice the absence of oak trees).
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