 From the start corral, one races up a gradually steepening incline and into a narrow wooded road, emerging onto a long curved coastal stretch that runs by Nobska Light, along a hot beach on Martha's Vineyard Sound, and past the estates of Belvidere Plains, before turning inland toward the center of Falmouth town, finally looping back to the shore route for one last hill that crests just before the finish.Before 2006, promotional materials usually described the New Balance Falmouth Road Race as a event.In 2006 it was measured and certified to be .