About the Baklava Blowout 5k
The Baklava Blowout is built around a charitable purpose, raising support for local hunger-relief efforts in Newport. The race draws people running hard alongside people out for a morning walk, and homemade baklava at the finish is the detail everyone seems to remember. It is one of those courses where the food at the end is genuinely the point.
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