Course

The race begins at 7 a.m. The course starts and finishes at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Portions of the course may be open to limited vehicular traffic. Please follow all course marshal and police instructions. In the event of an emergency where emergency medical vehicles must cross the course, runners will be briefly stopped to facilitate that vehicle's passage. This is a hilly course run in the heat and humidity of a Chesapeake August. Temperatures can be 80 degrees at the start, with high humidity. Please be sure you are properly trained.
Race Conditions
This is a hilly course run in the heat and humidity of a Chesapeake August. Temperatures can be 80 degrees at the start with high humidity. Please be sure you are properly trained.
Time Limit
All participants must maintain at least a 15-minute per mile pace and complete the race by 9:30 am. Participants unable to make the 8-mile cut-off time (approximately 9:00 am) will be advised they are no longer official participants and will be required to move to the sidewalk and obey all pedestrian traffic rules. Those individuals who continue despite missing the cut-off time will cease to be official participants and will not receive an official finisher time's or finisher's premium. THE COURSE WILL OPEN TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AT 9:30 am.