Overview The iDaph Elite Events are three half marathons in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and the May race starts on top of Jump Off Rock, the highest point in the Town of Laurel Park, and runs downhill for seven miles before it reaches Hendersonville. The other two are the RAD Half Marathon and 10K in June, which runs from downtown Asheville into the River Arts District, and the Black Bear Half Marathon and 8K in October, on the greenways of Hendersonville. iDaph puts each at 1,000 to 1,500 runners. All three courses are USATF certified and chip timed. iDaph Events, based near Asheville, was founded in 2011 by Daphne Kirkwood. On site Jump Off Rock is point to point: shuttles take runners up, the half joins the 10K near the Hendersonville YMCA, loops Lake Osceola and finishes on Main Street downtown, with an artisan market and race expo the day before. RAD has a net elevation loss and finishes in the River Arts District at Hi-Wire Brewing, where the post-race party brings in the district's own artists, food trucks and live music. Black Bear starts and ends in Jackson Park with less than 400 feet of climbing, and its Fall Market runs in the park on race morning, free to anyone. All three pour a free beer for runners 21 and over after the race. Audience Runners stack these races. The Appalachian Trilogy asks for any three of iDaph's four half marathons in a year, the Asheville Marathon and Half being the fourth, and caps entries at 200. The front of the field is quick: each race pays a cash bounty to anyone who breaks its course record, and the RAD half record fell to 1:11:03 in 2026. Track record The RAD course runs with the backing of the City of Asheville, which welcomed the race back to the River Arts District after Hurricane Helene. Jump Off Rock added a 5K for 2027. Across all its events, iDaph counts more than 12,000 participants a year and more than 26,000 email subscribers. Brand presence Hunter Subaru presents all three races, sharing Jump Off Rock with UNC Health Pardee. A presenting partner's name goes on every mention of its race, its logo sits beside the race logo on the shirt and finisher medal, and it speaks before the start and takes the lead spot in the expo and post-race vendor area. A finish line partner brands 50 feet of chute fence on both sides and the verticals of the finish truss, and a performance partner goes on the race bibs. The expo and the post-race party can each take a partner's name.