Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008

Race Start: 8:30 AM

Start Line: Paca and Pratt Streets

Race Limit: 1,500

Restrictions: No age restrictions for 5K.

Chip Timing: This year all Baltimore Marathon events will be timed using ChampionChip. The ChampionChip will allow for additional services like live results and printed individual results at the finish line. All registered participants will receive a Race issued ChampionChip in their race packet. This Chip must be affixed to your shoe, and records your Race time and splits. All participants MUST wear a ChampionChip in order to receive a time. At the end of the Race, your Race issued ChampionChip must be returned. Chip retrieval volunteers will be located at the Finish Line to help you remove your Chip. All participants are responsible for returning their Race issued ChampionChip. A $30 charge will be charged to participants if the ChampionChip is not returned. Participants may use their personal Yellow ChampionChip.  You must provide us with your chip code during packet pickup, at the chip verification table. 

Amenities: Runners participating in the 5K will receive the following:

Under Armour 5K performance shirt along with post-race food and beverage. For an Under Armour Size Chart, click here.

Course Amenities include: baggage check at Ravens Stadium, plenty of free parking, one (1) fluid stations on the course, toilets at start/finish

Course Map:  To view certified map, click here. (2007 version posted.  Check back soon to view 2008 version)

Purse: The top five (5) male and female finishers will receive: 1^st - $500, 2^nd - $350, 3^rd - $250, 4th - $200, 5th-$150

Master’s Division: Top three (3) overall male and female Master (40 and over) 5K finishers will receive: 1st - $150, 2nd - $125, 3rd - $75

 Mid-Atlantic Survivor Championship:

For survivors who run, the Active Survivors Network has teamed with the Baltimore Running Festival to create a flagship competitive division for catastrophic illness survivors or people living with disease. The Mid-Atlantic Survivor Championships is the first organized running division exclusively available for survivors to compete head-to-head. Titles will be awarded for the 5K, half-marathon and marathon. Participants will run and be timed with all runners; however will be awarded titles by age and gender. Survivor eligibility includes those diagnosed or survived serious or catastrophic illness and those living with disease including heart disease, stroke, cancer, serious lung disorders, MS, AIDS, other autoimmune disorders, serious accident survivors and other illnesses. The Active Survivor Network advisory committee will address questions on eligibility. For more information on the Active Survivors Network or full details on the Mid-Atlantic Survivor Championships, visit www.activesurvivor.org. 

Medical Support:
For the fourth year, Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine will provide medical support on the course and in the finish line area. The Hopkins staff will include certified doctors, registered nurses, physician assistants and EMTs and will provide the necessary medical attention to any patient in need. We are grateful to have one of the world’s finest institutions associated with the event.

Gatorade:
Gatorade Endurance Formula (Lemon-Lime flavor) will be served at each aid station along the course of this year’s race. Gatorade Endurance Formula is a specialized sports drink that contains approximately twice the amount of sodium (200 mg per 8 ounces) of Gatorade Thirst Quencher, along with chloride, potassium, magnesium and calcium to help sustain hydration by more fully replacing what is lost in sweat.  Gatorade Endurance Formula also contains a 6% carbohydrate solution (14 grams per 8 ounces), just like Gatorade Thirst Quencher, which research shows is optimal to help speed fluid back into the body and fuel working muscles. Gatorade Endurance Formula is available in 34 ounce and 24 ounce sport bottles at major grocery and convenience stores nationwide, and Gatorade Endurance Formula powder is available at specialty athletic stores and at www.gatorade.com/endurance.  For more information about Gatorade Endurance Formula, please visit www.itsonthecourse.com.