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Seneca7

April 25, 2027
Finger Lakes Welcome Center
Geneva, NY 14456 US

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Thanks for finding your way over to the Seneca7 registration page. This is intended for registration information only. Please visit the event website at www.RedNewtRacing.com/Seneca-7 for more detailed information and Q&A pieces. Thanks!

Events

Team Captains

Price: $934.45
incl. $45.45 Fee
Time: 5:45AM EDT 8:00PM EDT

288 spots left. Registration Opens October 29, 2026 at 7:00am EDT

Charity Team Captains

Price: $1,849.08
incl. $72.08 Fee
Time: 5:45AM EDT 8:00PM EDT

20 spots left. Registration Opens October 30, 2026 at 7:00am EDT

Team Members

Price: $0
Time: 5:45AM EDT 8:00PM EDT

1,889 spots left. Registration Opens November 1, 2026 at 7:00am EST

Event Description

Headed into our 15th in-person running, the Seneca7 is an opportunity to spend a day with 6 of your favorite sweaty smelly funny and somewhat athletically inclined friends in a 77.7’ish mile circumnavigation of Seneca Lake.

Join us for a race inspired by good fortune and a deep body of blue. The Seneca7 will introduce you to the wonders of Seneca Lake: rushing inlets, crashing waterfalls, banks bathed in golden sunlight. All you (and your team) have to do is run around it.

Event registration opens each October. Loyalty, local, and returning winners have first dibs on October 29th. Fundraising teams on October 30th. And, the open field on October 31st ,and which has been consistently capping out in under 5 minutes. So, set those alarms to be ready to click by 7:00 AM on Friday, October 31st.

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Timeline

Pre-Race

October 29th, 2026 @ 07:00: Early registration for Loyalty / Geneva / Podium / Volunteer Team Captain registration opens to pre-contacted prior-year Captains.

October 30th, 2026 @ 07:00: Charity Team Captain January 3, 2027 @ 07:00: Charity Team registration goes live and is limited to 20 teams.

October 31st, 2026 @ 07:00: Open registration goes live for team slots remaining after early registration.

November 1st, 2026: Team Member registration opens. Members will register on RunSignUp using their own accounts, selecting their team name when registering.

January 31: Final team rosters in RunSignUp, and team paces due (note, only original registering Team Captains can modify paces - in questions on their registrations, teams with new Captains email paces over to Ian@RedNewtRacing.com)

April 14 (in the wee hours): Team Start Times

April 15th: Pre-Race Briefing recorded and embedded both above, and at this link for each team to watch (mandatory).

April 21 @7:00pm: Ian / Jackie on for live Q&A. Tune into either the S7 Facebook or RNR YouTube pages to view and weigh in and will be linked after.

April 24: Packet Pick-Up @ Finger Lakes Welcome Center from 10:30 - 2:30. At least one member of your team must attend pickup & teammates encouraged. NO Race-Day Pickup!!

Race Day

April 25, 2027:

  • 05:45: 1st wave start @ Lake Front behind Finger Lakes Welcome Center

  • 9:55: too-early cutoff at Glenora Exchange #7 (i.e., don’t arrive before then)

  • 6:30: all teams must reach Sampson North exchange #17

  • 4:30: first finisher expected in at Lakefront Park finish

  • 7:45: all teams must reach Watershed exchange #20.

Registration Group Details

Early Registration (Captains Only)

Thursday October 29th @ 7:00 AM to Friday October 31st @ 6:59AM

  • $889 ($127/member) plus CC and RunSignUp fees

  • Loyalty Teams (have run more than 7 editions), Geneva Local Teams (as of recent), and a handful of the podium teams from 2026 will be offered early registration. The list of these teams can be viewed here, and Captains will be email in advance. Unused or registered teams from this pool as of Friday morning will forfeit priority status and the open registration cap raised in number.

  • Just Captains of those Teams will be registering and paying for the full relay at the time of registration. 

  • Captains will choose a team name and get a link afterward to share with team members who will register later.

  • Captains will have a separate step during registration to start a team, give it a team name and password, along with choosing gender category.

  • Those early teams who fail to register prior to October 31st at 06:59am will lose "preferred" status and will enter into the open pool starting at 07:00.

  • No refunds, Rollovers, or Transfers*. We will try to assist in putting out a call for additional team members if you end up being a couple of runners short. 

  • *Teams without 7 unique members registered by January 31st will be offered a refund of $689 if there is a waitlist. Substitutions of team members can be made until April 20th, however shirt numbers will be finalized using registrations in place on January 31st.

Charity Registration (Captains Only)

Friday October 30th @ 07:00 AM

  • $1777 w/ $1000 going to a charity (huge thanks to these teams!!!)

  • This year's charity reg has a cap of 20 teams.

  • Just captains registering and paying for the full relay at time of registration. 

  • Captains will choose a team name and get a link afterward to share with team members who will register later.

  • Plan in advance to have a rough idea of what your team mile pace will be. This will be a mandatory field and you won't want to waste time with the mental math in the moment. Make is as accurate as you can. Those who project slow and run fast can really gum up the works, over run staging, and may be held. Those who project fast but run slow may get cut-off. Try to be accurate on registration, but you can modify it later when all members are known.

  • A wait-list will automatically kick-in once the cap has been reached. This will be first come first serve if / as registered teams drop from the field.

  • No refunds, Rollovers, or Transfers*. We will try to assist in putting out a call for additional team members if you end up being a couple of runners short. 

  • *Teams without 7 unique members registered by January 31st will be offered a refund of $689 if there is a waitlist. Substitutions of team members can be made until April 20th, however shirt numbers will be finalized using registrations in place on January 31st.

Open Registration (Captains Only)

Saturday October 31st @ 07:00AM

  • $889 ($127/member) plus CC and RunSignUp fees

  • # of Open slots will be 310 less the number of Early / Charity teams who register on the 29th and 30th. 

  • We hit our registration cap in 3 minutes the prior couple of years. Be on, logged in to RunSignUp, event up, and ready to go by 6:58 am. And hope your fingers are nimble and your we connection solid. 

  • Just captains registering and paying for the full relay at time of registration. 

  • Captains will choose a team name and get a link afterward to share with team members who will register later.

  • Captains will have a separate step during registration to start a team, give it a team name and password, along with choosing gender category.

  • Plan in advance to have a rough idea of what your team mile pace will be. This will be a mandatory field and you won't want to waste time with the mental math in the moment. Make is as accurate as you can. Those who project slow and run fast can really gum up the works, over run staging, and may be held. Those who project fast but run slow may get cut-off. Try to be accurate on registration, but you can modify it later when all members are known.

  • A wait-list will automatically kick-in once the cap has been reached. This will be first come first serve if / as registered teams drop from the field. Teams can opt 

  • No refunds, Rollovers, or Transfers*. We will try to assist in putting out a call for additional team members if you end up being a couple of runners short. 

  • *Teams without 7 unique members registered by January 31st will be offered a refund of $689 if there is a waitlist. Substitutions of team members can be made until April 20th, however shirt numbers will be finalized using registrations in place on January 31st.

Team Member Registration

Sunday November 1st @ 07:00 Onward

  • Captains will get a link to the Relay team's page and name in a confirmation email from RunSignUp. They are to share that with team members who can begin registering on November 1st at 07:00.

  • Team members would ideally be giving the direct team joining link by their captain, but they can search by team name during registration or the Groups/Teams page of the RunSignup Race Website here:

    https://runsignup.com/RaceGroups/192031

  • All Team Member registrations must be in place by January 31st for the team to remain in the mix. There can be changes in the lineup made after that, but 7 names must be in the system and signed off on by that time and shirt sizes in place as of January 31st will be used for the order.

Relay Leg Metrics

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Leg Time Projection Grid

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Cancellation / Refund Policy

Team or Captain Cancels

We realize things come up. Injuries, can't-miss-kid events, etc... Teams who unfortunately need to bail, if notifying directors ahead of January 31st, or teams without 7 unique members registered by January 31st will be offered a refund of $689 if there is a waitlist. Substitutions of team members can be made until April 20th, however shirt numbers will be finalized using registrations in place on January 31st.

Event Cancels

I think many of us might agree that the world is a bit nutty at the moment. While Red Newt over 15 years has only canceled one scheduled race, this secondary to COVID, we realize it might happen. It could be fires from Quebec putting Air Quality parts above 200, a winter storm bringing 32 degrees and rain, a municipality saying "none shall pass", or a civil war on the heels of a divorce between Travis and Taylor. We'll do our best to bring you the event we've planned but if we need to cancel for the safety of entrants and/or volunteers, or per a permitting issue we'll either work to refund you what we're able or roll entries over into the following year. 

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Event Location

Finger Lakes Welcome Center
35 Lake Front Dr
Geneva, NY 14456 US View Location on Map

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