Overview
- The weekend opened with a ribbon-cutting to launch the Live Well Expo at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
- Organizers say this will be the biggest edition yet, with more than 52,000 runners and walkers across 11 events from all 50 states and 25 countries.
- Family Day set a new mark with over 26,000 participants, including 6,000-plus finishers in the 5K and more than 800 in the Champions Mile.
- New expo attractions include a marathon pace car for signatures, a rideable giant Brooks shoe, and a 4Run2 phone booth for recording pep-talk voicemails.
- Kids of Steel involved students from more than 360 schools who logged 25.2 training miles ahead of their final mile, as spectators are expected to line the course by the hundreds of thousands.