Time to book your Runcation and punch your ticket to the Boston Marathon! The We Run This Beach Marathon will be a beautiful 🏖, fast 💨 and scenic 🌴 course with gorgeous views of Lake Shelby, Middle & Little Lake’s. The course will start and finish near the Gulf State …
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Time to book your Runcation and punch your ticket to the Boston Marathon! The We Run This Beach Marathon will be a beautiful 🏖, fast 💨 and scenic 🌴 course with gorgeous views of Lake Shelby, Middle & Little Lake’s. The course will start and finish near the Gulf State Park Lodge and traverse the pancake flat paved paths throughout Gulf State Park.
We will have Chip Timing splits at the 10K for both Half Marathon & Marathon and then a 1/2 marathon split for the marathoners.
And then there’s the post-race party. We will have post-race food for all finishers, 2 drink tickets, post-race music, all on the white sandy beaches of Gulf Shores AL. We believe in training hard, racing hard and celebrating hard and this race will be no different!
Average Temperatures at this time of year are 46F for the Low and 66F the high. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Age group awards will be: 0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+
ALL runners will receive a HUGE finisher medal and shirt! The race shirt will be a long sleeve tech shirt (unisex sizing).
**NEW IN 2023** The We Run This Beach CHALLENGE. For participants who sign up for either of the Half Marathon or Marathon + their choice of Saturday 5K or 10K, they will receive an even BIGGER finisher medal 🤩
There are VERY generous cutoffs for the Half Marathon. We want everyone that wants to tackle their first half to have the opportunity to do so. Therefore, the Half Marathon cutoff is 5 hours. The Marathon cutoff is 6 hours. This is due to many factors including road permits, police, the state park etc. If you cannot run under 5:45, please consider signing up for the Half. Plus you get to eat post-race BBQ sooner. 😎
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Nice run through State Park
Packet pickup was crazy Friday night. over an hour wait. no on course entertainment, just a scenic run through the state park. water stations were sparse, and under manned. Swag … MORE
Packet pickup was crazy Friday night. over an hour wait. no on course entertainment, just a scenic run through the state park. water stations were sparse, and under manned. Swag was nice, but I was a little mislead with the challenge medal. No extra medal, just a bigger medal for completing mileage both days.