New record in marathon registrations

According the folks over at Sports Backers, they have surpassed last year’s entry record of 15,723 participants in the SunTrust Richmond Marathon, McDonald’s Half Marathon and HCA Virginia 8k.

According the folks over at Sports Backers, they have surpassed last year’s entry record of 15,723 participants in the SunTrust Richmond Marathon, McDonald’s Half Marathon and HCA Virginia 8k. They expect the number of entries to be over 16,000 by Saturday. That’s like taking the entire student body of the University of Richmond, multiplying it by three and some change, and having them all run in the same direction at the same time. Geez.

47 states and 16 different countries will also be represented at this weekend’s race.

We’d love to know if any of our RVANews readers will be running this weekend. Let us know in the comments!

(And if you’re interested in running but haven’t signed up yet, there’s still time. Stop by richmondmarathon.org for additional sign-up times and entry fees.)

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Valerie Catrow

Valerie Catrow is editor of RVAFamily, mother to a mop-topped first grader, and always really excited to go to bed.

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