Welcome to the Minneapolis Marathon. Race day is Sunday, June 3, 2012
The Minneapolis Marathon is a beautiful urban race. It starts and finishes downtown with the middle portion of the race going along the beautiful, tree-lined Mississippi River. The Marathon route even takes runners into historic Fort Snelling.
You can run the half marathon, do marathon individually OR do it as a relay! More than 200 people did the relay in teams of 2, 3, or 4 and had a blast! "We had so much fun doing the relay, I want to do it again already," one runner said after the race.
You can do this event again-- or for the first time just by signing up for any of our events at the Minneapolis Marathon! Join us for the fun, the SWAG and the activity! "Awesome race, excellent organization and the world's best volunteers," another runner said! Join us June 3, 2012 for the Minneapolis Marathon!
Participants get a men's or women's cut performance t-shirt and a stained glass medal.
Video: This is the First Half of the Marathon and the complete Half Marathon Course
To see video of the second (or southern) half of the marathon course, click here.
Half Marathon Race Information
The Minneapolis Half Marathon course takes you from the picturesque urban beauty of downtown Minneapolis to the Mississippi River, down our tree-lined Parkways and back.
Race day is Sunday, June 3, 2012
Start time: 6:30 a.m. at the Depot Hotel in Minneapolis (near the intersection of South 2nd Street and 5th Avenue South, in Minneapolis) See Map
Gather your friends, family or coworkers together and make the Minneapolis Mararthon a team event. You can create teams of 2, 3 or 4 people. There will be 3 exchange zones on the course where you will meet your teammates and exchange your team timing chip from one ankle to the other. Please see the slideshow for a detailed breakdown of the course and the exchange zones. The Light rail can be utilized as a way to get to and from the exchange zones from the start you will also be able to use neighborhood parking for exchange zone 2 & 3. Watch for more finalized information here coming soon. Race day is Sunday, June 3, 2012
Step 1: Create a team of family, friends, coworkers that want to have fun and work together to accomplish a marathon.
Step 2: Come up with a fun team name to register with
Step 3: Register all of you teammates and mark your calendars. When you register you will be given a choice to either create a new team or join a team. If you are the first to register for your team create a name then tell your teammates to register under that name. The order of your team does not matter when signing up. You will fill this information in when you pick up your packet on June 4.
Step 4: Start training for this fun event. Decide who will do each leg of the course. The order of your team does not matter when signing up. You will need to decide the final order when you pick up your packet at packet pick up on June 4.There will also be super fun contest and categories to motivate you to be creative. You will sign up for your category at packet pickup on June 4. The team with the best overall time for each of these categories will be awarded with prizes:
Leg 1 - Starts with Marathon & Half Marathon at 7:00am. Runs 5.2 Miles to exchange zone 1 at the west side of Stone Arch Bridge
Leg 2 - Meets leg 1 at exchange zone 1 at the west side of the stone arch bridge parking lot and exchanges the team timing chip. Runs 6.6 Miles to exchange zone 2 on Minnehaha Ave and exchange team timing chip to leg 3. Leg 2 then takes the light rail from 11 - 50th Street/ Minnehaha Park Station to 5 - Downtown East/Metrodome Station.
Leg 3 - Will meet leg 2 at exchange zone 2. They must either take the light rail or arrange for their own transportation to and from exchange zone 3. Leg 3 will run 8.5 Miles through Fort Snelling to Exchange Zone 4. They will then take light rail back downtown.
Leg 4 - Will meet Leg 3 at exchange zone 3. They must take the light rail or arrange for their own transportation to exchange zone 4. Leg 4 will run 5.9 Miles back to the finish of the Marathon located downtown near the Guthrie Theatre.
Please see the information below on taking the light rail.
More information on the Minneapolis Marathon Relay:
Start time: 6:30 a.m. at the Depot Hotel in Minneapolis (near the intersection of South 2nd Street and 5th Avenue South, in Minneapolis) See Map
Choose your relay team: 2, 3, or 4 participants!
There will be water and finisher medals at each exchange zone.
Must do handoff off team timing chip at official exchange areas; Relay Distances: 1st. Leg: 5.2 miles, 2nd Leg 6.6 miles, 3rd Leg 8.5 miles, 4th Leg 5.9 miles
All participants in your relay get a men's or women's cut t-shirt, a hat or a visor and a finisher's medal!
Chip Timing. Your team will have one chip that they will wear around their left ankle and exchange it from one runner to another at the designated exchange zones
At Packet Pick-up each runner gets a packet for the relay. One of them will have a chip. You will decide who will start and use it first then you will swap the chip at each exchange zone.
No strollers or dogs allowed
There is a 6-hour time limit. Your team must keep a 13:44 minute per mile pace.
Minneapolis Marathon Results
Thank you for running in the Minneapolis Marathon, Relay and Half Marathon. We were happy to host you for these fun events.
2010 HTC Participation Results
(If another city got first or second place in the Hometown Challenge because of their overall time, they were not eligible for the participation category)
All 254 runners who participated in the Marathon and Half Marathon from these cities will get 50% off the 2010 Monster Dash Half Marathon.
Marathon
100k Chicago
26.2k Plymouth
13.1k Chanhassen
Half Marathon
100k Duluth - Superior
26.2k Eden Prairie
13.1k Golden Valley
5k Hudson
1k Rogers
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