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The Rose Bowl Half Marathon & 5K will be the only event of its kind in the Pasadena area and promises to draw participants from all over the Southern California community. |
Rose Bowl Half Marathon and 5k |
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Pacific Sports LLC and the Rose Bowl Operating Company have teamed up to bring you the Rose Bowl Half Marathon & 5k! This event will start and finish at the Rose Bowl Stadium. Half marathon competitors will have an opportunity to run past and through some of Pasadena’s greatest landmarks including the Rose Bowl, the Colorado Bridge, the Arroyo Seco, Devil’s Gate Dam, JPL, the new Flintwash Bridge and more! The course is scenic, periodically hilly and comprised of a combination of road and trail. Approximately 20% of the course is on the trails near Brookside Golf Course and Hahamonga Watershed Park. Please read our final, post-event update if you have not done so already.
View and order your 2007 participant photos by going to the link below: http://www.asiorders.com/view_event.asp?EVENTID=29427 December 13, 2008 Half Marathon – 8:00am Competitors will begin heading south on Arroyo Blvd. Left on California Blvd. Right on Grand Ave. Merge back on to Arroyo Blvd. Left on Madeline Dr. Left on Orange Grove Blvd. Follow Orange Grove back towards the Rose Bowl. Left on Rosemont. Follow Rosemont Ave. along Brookside Golf Course and past Washington Blvd. Enter trail head on the left traveling north along the golf course. Run under the 210 Freeway and head up the switchback trail towards Devil’s Gate Dam. Run through the tunnel under the highway and emerge at the Devil’s Gate Dam and entrance to the Hahamonga Watershed Park trails. Follow the trail north past Johnson Field towards JPL. Run through the JPL parking lot and turn left at Explorer Rd crossing the JPL bridge. Turn left back onto the trails heading south towards Oak Grove Park. Continue South. Cross the Flintwash Bridge toward the Devil’s Gate Dam. Run through the tunnel under the highway and emerge on Linda Vista Ave. Left on Yocum. Left on Parkview Ln. Merge on to West Dr. Take West Dr south. Left on Seco St. Finish at the Rose Bowl!!! The majority of the trails used for the Rose Bowl Half Marathon are composed of dry and hard packed dirt.
This event is USTAF sanctioned. The 5k course is the traditional Rose Bowl 5k loop. Start on Seco St heading East. Left on Rosemont Ave. Left on Washington Blvd. Left on West Dr. Finish at the Rose Bowl!
The finish location for the Rose Bowl Half Marathon & 5k is not directly inside the Rose Bowl. As much as we would have loved for this to happen for all of our competitors, in order to have a USATF measured course the stadium finish could not happen. Stadium schedules and access are ever changing, making official course measurements difficult if we can't be sure where the finish line will be year to year. As many of you may know, the field is being prepped for the famous Rose Bowl game.
Age Groups: Male & Female: Registration for the 2008 race is now open. If someone else if picking up your packet, they must have a signed waiver from you in order to do so. Waiver will be posted at a later date. For and extra $30, you can register as a VIP. This allows you to pick up your packet on race morning, and gives your free parking and a $10 merchandise certificate. Packet pick-up location will be announced shortly. This represents the total number of miles in the Rose Bowl Half Marathon, the 2009 Buffalo Run Half Marathon and the 2009 Catalina Marathon. Amazing as it may seem, the distance from Pasadena to Catalina is very close to 52.4 miles. For the 2008 Rose Bowl Half Marathon and 2009 Buffalo Run and 2009 Catalina Marathon, anyone who finishes all 3 races will receive a special finisher t-shirt with the 52.4 logo on the front and the logo of all 3 events on the back. Awards will be given to the top 5 times overall in male and female only for the first season. We will post the cumulative times following the first two events and monitor it through the finale at the Catalina Marathon next March. There is no charge or entry fee, we only ask that you check off on your online registration that you plan to do all three. Good luck training for a great challenge.
FRIDAY (Registration & Packet Pick-Up) - There will be plenty of parking located directly in front of store. RACE DAY PARKING - IMPORTANT NOTE-- All half marathon & 5k competitors must arrive no later than 7:15am. The course will officially be closed by 7:30am making access to the stadium very difficult. We recommend planning to arrive early on race day. Parking at the Rose Bowl will be in Lots F and K for all participants and spectators. The fee for parking per car is $10. VIP Parking will now be held in Lot F. If you have signed up for the VIP Package and have not received your parking pass, please notify Kylee Belflower at kylee@pacficsportsllc.com or 714-978-1528. Gatorade Endurance Formula is the Official Fluid Replacement, Power Crunch is the Official Energy Bar and Arrowhead is the Official Water of the Rose Bowl Half Marathon and 5k. For more information about the Gatorade Endurance Formula, go to www.gatorade.com/endurance.
Awards to to the top three in each division. All finishers get a finisher medal. Click on the image below to see what it looks like. The top overall half marathon male & female winner will receive a Suunto t3 wrist computer and Rose Bowl Half Marathon Award. The top overall male and female 5k winner will receive an award.
The Courtyard Marriott Monrovia is the Host Hotel for the event. Courtyard by Marriott
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The staff of Pacific Sports will be out of the office beginning Thursday mid-day. Last minute questions can be addressed by the Rose Bowl staff at 626-577-3100 or directly at packet pick-up on Friday evening or race day. Pacific Sports LLC
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