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Rose Bowl Half Marathon Expects 1,500 Runners Sunday

Published on Thursday, February 20, 2014 | 5:30 am
 

The Rose Bowl Half Marathon on Sunday will be joined by about 1,500 runners of all ages including a child as young as 4 years old as well as seniors aged 84 years.

Participants may also choose an array of distances to cover: 1K fun run for kids, 5K, 10K, or half-marathon run, equivalent to 13.1 miles.

Half-marathon competitors will run past and through some of Pasadena’s greatest landmarks including the Rose Bowl, the Colorado Bridge, the Arroyo Seco, Devil’s Gate Dam, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the new Flintwash Bridge.

The event is family friendly but it may also prove challenging especially for half-marathon runners, said Jan Fambro of the organizing company Pacific Sports, LLC.

“This is a recreational event and we really encourage families to come out,” Fambro said. “The half marathon is both a road race and a trail race which means you’re literally going to be running on roads but you’re also going to be running on the trails around the Rose Bowl.”

Approximately 70 percent of the course is on the trails near Brookside Golf Course and Hahamongna Watershed Park, according to the organizers.

Fambro said that the packets that the runners must pick up at Rose Bowl on Saturday afternoon include an ankle bracelet that will automatically record the runners’ time.

“This has a chip timing mechanism—it looks like a little ankle bracelet that snaps on like a dog collar, and that’s how they get their time,” Fambro said.

The runners have to be at the Rose Bowl at 7:30 on Saturday as the organizers will be closing down the roads for the first race that starts at 8:00 a.m., Fambro said.

The top male and female runners from all categories will receive a prize from Halo Top ice cream in choice of flavor, Fambro added.

After the run, the participants may join an exposition at the Horizon Club, which will include a beer garden for participants aged 21 and above.

Registration is $15 for 1K run, $40 for 5K and 10k, and $135 for half-marathon. Visit https://www.endurancecui.active.com/event-reg/select-race?e=5624854 to register online.

Rose Bowl is located at 1001 Rose Bowl Dr. For more information, call (714) 978-1528 or visit http://www.pacificsportsllc.com.

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