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Virginia > Rock & Roll Half Marathon
Virginia
Beach,
VA
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Date
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Event
Details
Fast and flat and featuring a running finish along this coastal
Virginia city's beachfront boardwalk, the Virginia Beach Rock &
Roll Half Marathon is one of the country's most popular half-marathon
road race events, typically drawing a field of about 20,000 runners
to the race that celebrates its eighth annual running over the 2008
Labor Day weekend. While they're out on the course, runners encounter
20 local bands playing from 14 stages set up throughout the race, from
the starting line near the Virgia Beach Convention Center all the way
down to Camp Pendleton and out to the Oceanfront Boardwalk, where the
finish line lies.
Largely because it's run along a coastal route, this point-to-point is
mostly fast and flat, from the starting line all the way through the
middle of the course to the finish. From the starting line near the
convention center, at 19th and Parks Avenue, the race takes runners
along 19th Street for several blocks until the intersection with
Pacific Avenue, where runners then turn right and head south for a long
straightaway within just a couple blocks of the nearby beach.
This portion of the race course follows Pacific Avenue as it turns into
General Booth Boulevard, which runners follow southward all the way
down to the Camp Pendleton military base. After making the turn at
Prosperity Road and heading back northward along Prosperity toward
Birdneck Road -- and past the trees and green fairways of Red Wing Lake
Golf Course on the right -- runners follow the course as its winds
through several twists and turns through the base, exiting back onto
General Booth Boulevard for the run back north toward the beach.
Runners follow this stretch of the course all the way up to the
intersection with 14th Street, passing by the waters of Virginia
Beachs' Lake Rudee and Lake Holly on the left along the way. The course
turns quickly onto 14th and then proceeds for just one block before
turning right again onto Atlantic Avenue, which runners follow until it
dead ends near the Rudee Inlet and turns around again, and then heads
along the boardwalk for the final stretch toward the finish line, where
race organizers add there will be plenty of beer and other refreshments
awaiting the runners.
Race
Weather & Climate
Set along the Atlantic coastline in the southeasternmost part of the
state, about a two-hour drive from Richmond, the city of Virginia Beach
typically experiences warm to relatively mild weather in the late
summer, as well as some of the heaviest rainfall of the year. In
August, average monthly temperatures range between 85°F and
70°F, while rainfall totals average around 5.19 inches for the
month.
Fees
$120 at the weekend race expo
Registration
Online registration is now closed for the 2008 running of Virginia
Beach's Rock & Roll Half Marathon, though registration will be
available at the event race expo (depending on whether space is still
available). Please check back later for
updated information on how
to register for the 2009 running of the race.
Website
www.rnrvb.com
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