Announcing the 2010 Flying Tortoise Marathon and Running Events

 travelers that include hotels, round trip flights to the
The course for the Flying Tortoise Marathon andGalapagos, chartered boat and land tours on and
Running Events makes a kind of figure eight througharound the islands of San Crisobal, Isabela and Santa
the farms and villages in the highlands of San Cristobal,Cruz, Galapagos National park guide, food, snorkel
mostly shaded, mostly dirt paths. The courseequipment, etc. Please see our web site and write for
constantly undulates mildly. There are very few flatmore details, . The difference between the two tours
stretches. Even though we are on the equator, Aug. isis that one is based out of Guayaquil Ecuador and
a “cool” month, day time high temperaturegoes to see Santa Cruz island, the other based out of
average seventy degrees.Quito and includes a day tour of Quito, but not of
 Santa Cruz island.
Entry fee for the Marathon $60, half marathon $50 
and ten K $40, includes t-shirt and medals. NetIt is not a requisite to attend one of these tours to run
proceeds go to the Ignaicio Hernandez high school.in the events.
The students from the school will be helping with aid 
stations etc. along with local farmers. Some of theCome To Galapagos can handle plane flights and
students will also be running in the events.hotels for those that don’t wish to attend one of
 the tours, a separate private tour can be designed for
Enrollment is limited to two hundred fifty participants.the needs of other groups, large and small or you can
Runners from Brazil, Argentina, Chili and of coursejust register and show up race day.
mainland Ecuador have made commitments to come. 
 We’re looking forward to an exciting, unique event
We have put together two packages for internationaland hope to see you here.