This race is a partnership between the Town of Tusayan and Run Tucson. We're grateful to Mayor Clarinda Vail, Town Manager Charlie Hendrix, and the entire Town of Tusayan community for 7 years of a happy and successful partnership!

For more information on the Town of Tusayan, the Gateway to the Grand Canyon, see https://tusayan-az.gov/.

Run Tucson is thrilled to collaborate with Town of Tusayan, the Tusayan Fire Department, the Kaibab National Forest, the Grand Canyon Visitor Center at the IMAX, Red Feather Lodge, and a host of friends and colleagues from both Northern and Southern Arizona.

Run Tucson is a husband-wife team located in Tucson, where we're raising our son and daughter. We are a full-service running company that produces events, coaches runners in person and online, and provides all manner of running event and coaching consultation. (The only thing we don't do is timing -- we leave that to our friend, Greg Wenneborg and his timing company, Roadrunner Race Timing. Greg is a three-time Olympic Trials qualifier and former college coach, so he knows his way around the sport.)

Tia was raised in Walla Walla, WA and ran cross country and track at the University of Idaho. She is an RRCA Certified coach with an M.A. in Education. She currently coaches runners from around the country via online coaching, while also heading up The Workout Group, a training group in Tucson originally started back in 1997. Tia has run a couple of 2:48 marathons.

For the past 14 years Randy has been the Director of Coaching Education for the Road Runners of America (www.rrca.org), heading up their nationally-renowned coaching certification program. Sadly, as a runner, he has slowed down considerably since running a 2:19 marathon a long, long time ago.

Our local mission at Run Tucson is to make Tucson a better place to live through running -- our national mission is to inspire happy lives through running.

Thus, this opportunity to help produce the Grand Canyon Trail Half Marathon fits our passion perfectly -- we can add value to our friends in communities near the South Rim while providing an inspirational event for the national running community!

We'll add you to our emailing list so you can see the events we put on -- we'll give all of you discounts to our home-town races just to give you another reason to travel to Arizona!