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Kentucky > Run & Walk For Children Half Marathon
& 5K
Bowling
Green,
KY
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Date
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Event
Details
Run as a benefit fundraiser for Bowling Green's Family Enrichment
Center, the Total Fitness Connection Run & Walk For Children
Half Marathon takes more than 100 runners each year along an
out-and-back course through the area known as Three Springs just south
of the city, with the start near the Trinity Baptist Church on
Smallhouse Road and the finish line that brings runners into Bowling
Green's Basil Griffin Park, where they'll be greeted by a line of
Corvettes as they run in to complete their race.
Largely fast and flat and run on paved surfaces throughout, the race
takes runners from the church southward along Three Springs Road,
across the William Natcher Parkway to Matlock Road, where they turn
left and head south on Matlock. Just past the intersection with Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery Road, runners hit the turnaround point and then head
back up Matlock Road, and turn right when the hit Carter Sims Road for
a brief loop around Baldock and Plano Roads, before heading back onto
Matlock for the remainder of the course back toward the finish.
Runners finish the race inside Basil Griffin Park, where the Corvettes
are a reminder that Bowling Green is home to the country's only
National Corvette Museum, a 68,000-sq.-ft. facility that serves as a
showcase for more than 50 Corvette models and concept cars, and which
race participants as well as their friends and family can visit while
they're in town. Also well worth your while is a visit to nearby
Mammoth Cave National Park, whose more than 360 miles of underground
caves form the longest known cave in the world. Visitors to the
52,380-acre park can also take in some camping, horseback riding, trail
hiking and much more.
Race
Weather & Climate
Set near the center of the southern half of the state, about 25 miles
from the Kentucky-Tennessee border, the city of Bowling Green typically
experiences mild to moderately cool weather conditions in the spring,
with relatively even rainfall throughout the year. In April, average
monthly temperatures range between 69°F and 45°F, while
precipitation amounts average around 3.99 inches for the month.
Fees
N/A
Registration
Online registration for the spring 2009 running of the Run &
Walk For Children Half Marathon is now closed, as the event has
completed. Please check back later for updated information on how to
register for the 2010 running of the race.
Website
www.familyenrichmentcenter.com
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