Saturday, April 5, 2008

Kids ages 5-12 will want to take part in this exciting event. The First Market Mile Kids Run begins prior to the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue10k and features all of the same excitement.

Participants will each get a t-shirt and race number and will all line up for the starters gun in waves based on age. The new course starts on Cathedral Place and takes them up Park Ave. to Lombardy St., around Stuart Circle and down Franklin Street to Monroe Park. Youngsters will cross the same finish line as the 10k, where they will be greeted by cheers from the crowd and awarded with commemorative finishers’ medals. Then it’s on to post-race food and the Minute Maid Race Festival.

Be part of the excitement.  Register for the First Market Mile today!

If you like to run, click here for more information about our Fit for Life Kids Challenge running program. It's a free, incentive-based, incremental mileage fitness program for elementary school-aged children throughout the metro Richmond area. To help stay motivated, you can enter the First Market Mile on April 5th and log one of your miles along the way to your 26-mile goal.

First Market Mile Race Information

To register: 
There are two ways to register:

1. Sign up online; or Online registration is now closed. Walk up registration is available at the Anthem Health & Fitness Expo.
2. Print out a registration form and mail it in*.

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Anthem Health & Fitness Expo (Packet Pick Up)
Like everyone registered for the 10k, First Market Mile participants will also pick up their race packets at the Anthem Health & Fitness Expo at the U-TURN Sports Performance Academy, 2101 Maywill Street (for directions, click here), on Thursday, April 3 from 3 to 9 p.m. and on Friday, April 4 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. There is no packet pick up available on Race Day.

When arriving at packet pick up, find the participant's name on the list posted. It will list their bib number. Go to the appropriate table for that bib number to pick up their race number, then follow the signs to the other side of the room for their t-shirt and race packet.

Pre Race Warm Up
Participants in the First Market Mile Kids Run are invited to meet for a group warm up at 7:30 a.m. Silly Bus will be doing the pre-race warmup in front of the Shaffer Dining Hall near the First Market Mile Kids Run start line (for a map of the 10k and Kids Run courses, click here).

Starting Line
The starting line for the First Market Mile Kids Run is located on Cathedral Place near Laurel Street (for a course map, click here). Please note that this is a change from last year. One adult may accompany any child age 8 or under while they are on the course. Participants will line up for the starters gun in waves based on age (and corresponding to the color of their bib number) and will start as follows:

The First Market Mile Kids Run finishes at Franklin and Laurel Street, the same place that the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k finishes.

General Information

• The race begins at 8 a.m.
• One parent may run with any child age 8 or younger.
• Kids Run participants will not be timed. There will be a clock at the finish for those interested in noting their own finish time.
• As the finishers enter the finish line chute, they will receive a medal and refreshments and then will be directed to the Meeting Area (see below).

First Market Mile Meeting Area
Located near the exit of the Finish Line Corral, the Kids Run Meeting Area is a secure place, manned by helpful volunteers, for participants to meet their parents and friends. All parents must meet their children in the designated Kids Run Meeting Area after the children finish the race. Signs in the Meeting Area will correspond with the different age groups, providing an easy locating for everyone to meet up after the race.

Race Photos
Brightroom professional photographers will be taking runner photos along the course for the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k and the First Market Mile Kids Run. Be sure to wear your bib number where it can be seen, and smile when you see the Brightroom team. Then visit visit Brightroom's website the week after the race to see your photos.

Updated on 2/6/2008