The Beer City Half runs on! Join us on the morning of the Beer City Festival in Santa Rosa at A Place to Play for a beautiful run around Santa Rosa Creek. The Beer City Half Marathon includes a half marathon, 10k, 5k distances. The post-race celebration will whet your appetite for the Festival which takes place in downtown Santa Rosa in the afternoon and introduces you to some of the friends we have made putting together the Beer City Festival. This means you can look forward to a taste of local, regional and international brews, food trucks, and music.
Every racer receives a finishing medal, shirt, a special Beer City tasting glass. Click here to see more Frequently Asked Questions!
Friday, February 17
6 pm Virtual Race Briefing on Zoom and Facebook (Registered athletes receive information to attend.)
Friday, February 24
Third Street Aleworks, 610 3rd Street, Santa Rosa (Directions)
3 pm - 6 pm Bib and shirt pickup; registration
$1 off pints!
Saturday, February 25
Beer City Half
A Place to Play, 2375 W 3rd St, Santa Rosa
Click here for directions
7:00 am: Registration and bib pickup opens
8:30 am: Half Marathon Start
8:45 am: 10k Start
9:00 am: 5k Start
Beer City Festival - Separate ticket required
Old Courthouse Square Santa Rosa
11:00 am: Special VIP entry for runners only
12:00 pm: General Admission
4:30 pm: Festival concludes
Beer City Half offers our runners over 21 years of age a selection of beer, kombucha, and hard tea from Hoocha, Lagunitas, and Sierra Nevada. There will also be non-alcoholic Hop Water.
Beer will be served in Beer City Festival tasting glasses for you to take home (without a beer in them still) or to Beer City Festival in the afternoon.
Also, there will be bubbly water and sodas, as well as snacks for everyone, including Bellwether Farms yogurt, OCHO bars, and fruit.
The Beer City races start and finish at A Place to Play in Santa Rosa and run along the Santa Rosa Creek Trail. Click here to see the distances between Water Stops.
The Half Marathon is a figure-eight-ish course with sections around Piner Creek and Peterson Creek Trails. At Willowside, the course moves to the Southern side of Santa Rosa Creek. Runners then cross back at Fulton and do a loop out to Pierson Street and back to A Place to Play. Click on the picture of the course to see the detailed view of the course in Gmap Pedometer. The course is paved and gravel path. More than half the course is dirt and gravel.
The 10k is a loop course that includes Patterson Creek Trail. Click here to see the course.
The 5k course is an out-and-back with a loop in the middle on Patterson Creek Trail. The course returns right back to A Place to Play. Click here to see the map.
All courses are marked with ribbon and signs.
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