Schedule of Events
Check back often for new and exciting events related to the Blue Ridge Marathon. We’ll try to include anything that will make your experience one to remember.
2012 Marathon Schedule
- Friday, April 20
- Packet Pick Up/Expo (2-8pm) at the Taubman Museum.
- Foot Levelers will provide free foot scans. Enter to win a free pair of orthotics.
- Pick up last minute items from Fleet Feet.
- Silent auction for commemorative painting created exclusively for the marathon by Janet Wimmer.
- Foot Levelers Pasta Dinner with guest speaker Bill Rodgers and Dr. Tim Maggs (limited to 200, register in advance) – 6:30-8:00pm
- Down by Downtown Music Festival – multiple venues throughout downtown:
- Live music stage outside runner expo (Friday, April 20) – 5-8pm
- Packet Pick Up/Expo (2-8pm) at the Taubman Museum.
- Roller Race (part of the Roanoke Twilight Criterium) – stationary bike racing on the music stage – 8pm
- 5:30am-7:00am: Packet and chip pick up for those who didn’t make it to the expo (at Taubman Museum)
- 7:30am: Full, Team Relay, and Half Marathon start
- 8:00am: YMCA Kids Marathon start at Kirk YMCA (one mile away from finish line). Kids finish at same finish line as everyone else.
- 11:00-5pm: Live music, beer garden, food vendors, climbing wall, bouncy rooms, and more at finish line area.
- Music is part of the Down by Downtown Music Festival. After 5pm music moves to a variety of indoor locations spread throughout downtown.
- May 6
- Deadline to enter 26.2 JPEG – our juried photo contest. Did you snap a good photo? Enter and you could win $300.
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