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Change coming to Richmond Marathon

By Andy Thompson | March 22, 2012

The long downhill finish has been a highlight of the Richmond Marathon for years. Well, that finish is now changing, but the experience isn’t likely to.

At a press conference earlier today, the Sports Backers announced changes to the 34-year-old event, including a re-route of the finishing stretch: “The 26.2-mile course…has a new riverfront finish line at the intersection of 5^th Street and Tredegar Street. The course now turns right onto 5^thStreet from Cary Street, still culminating with a participant-pleasing downhill finish. Brown’s Island will be the new site of the Post-Race Festival, which was previously located at the James Center.”

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Monument Avenue 10K now 8th-largest race in U.S.

By Andy Thompson | January 27, 2012

Anyone who’s run in it or watched a friend or family member run knows the Monument Avenue 10K is a big race. Apparently, it just keeps getting bigger. It wasn’t too long ago the race cracked the Top 25 worldwide in participation. Just last year it broke the 40,000 entries barrier. Now, according to Running USA, it’s reached even rarer heights.

The Metro Richmond Sports Backers, the race organizer, announced that “the event has been recognized as the 8^th largest fully-timed running race of any distance in the United States by Running USA in preliminary rankings for 2011. In addition, the race is the 15^th largest fully-timed race in the entire world.”

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Group to bring “relay marathon” to Richmond

By Andy Thompson | January 4, 2012

A group called Project Athena, which helps survivors of medical or traumatic setbacks live an adventurous dream as part of their recovery, has announced they’ll be bringing one of their fundraising adventures — a “Relay Marathon” — to Richmond in July, 2012. Teams of four will each run a 10k lap (for a cumulative “marathon” time) through downtown Richmond area. The course has not yet been set. Thei goal is to have at least 300 teams of “Fundraising Gods/Goddesses,” as well as to honor 50 local survivors at the start (all of whom receive free entry and training).

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