The Get our Youth Moving Marathon is 7-week (50 day) exercise curriculum to elementary schools and youth groups that are interested in influencing the healthy activity patterns of their children. The program is designed for 1st – 5th graders; log books are provided to monitor daily activity and weekly incentives are offered. There is no cost to the kids or schools to participate in GYMM thanks to our friends at Novo Nordisk and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shields Delaware. Participants accumulate 25 miles of incentives and get to Run 1, 4 Fun! (the final mile of their marathon) on Saturday, May 11; the day before the Delaware Marathon. If your school is interested in our Get our Youth Moving Marathon or if your family would like to run in the Run 1,4 Fun!, please provide us with your contact information and someone from our organization will contact you. Last year, over 2000 children participated in GYMM and over 450 children came out to Run 1,4 Fun!
Vendors are now being accepted for the Delaware Marathon runners expo, to be held on Saturday May 11, 2013 at Tubman Park. Please join our anchor tenants New Balance Brandywine & Christiana (who will be selling New Balance and Delaware Marathon co-branded clothing) and National Running Center (who will be selling discount clothing and race day essentials). Also confirmed are Five Star Natural Organic Home Foods Delivery Service, Maui Wowi smoothies, Hippy Runners, Arbonne International, Lori J Bracelets, PT Plus and Imagery, the Marine Corps Marathon, the Spartan Race; 2 Many T’s (shirt recycling), the More Foundation (shoe recycling), and elite runner Dane Rauschenberg presented by The Beef Check-off.
Here’s some good news: besides upgraded bibs and medals, we are working to arrange an all-american BBQ featuring mini pork sliders, coleslaw, and fresh fruit for all runners from our friends at 2 Fat Guys Catering! They will also be selling food to the public on race day. Please visit their Hockessin and Greenville locations!
Working with our good friends at Crown Trophy on upgraded race bibs and finisher medals for the marathon and half marathon. The medals will be larger with full color ribbons and the race bibs will be larger and will feature runner names and bib numbers as well as our logo. We think you’ll be excited to wear them. Please visit the Crown Trophy shop on Concord Pike in Talleyville for all your trophy and merchandise needs.
2013 Finisher Medal
2013 Finisher Medal Ribbon
ServiceMark has joined our ranks of supporting sponsors and will provide bottled water for all finishers and volunteer shirts for our 500 volunteers. Look for the ServiceMark tents on race day.
AT&T has joined our ranks of supporting sponsors and has agreed to provide cinch bags for all 3000 runners. NEW: we have added the ability for you to receive text and emailed Delaware Marathon or Delaware Half Marathon results automatically. Simply provide us with you cell number and cell carrier and/or email address and we will automatically send you finish and split information. Check the 2013 Participant Lists to see if we already have this information.
Dane Rauschenberg is an extreme athlete who made his mark as a man who ran 52 marathons in 52 consecutive weekends. Since then he has run a 202-mile relay solo and completed a 350-mile run up the coast of Oregon. He doesn’t just know running, he has explored it to the deepest reaches of its mental, physical and emotional boundaries. Dane will be at the Delaware Marathon, working with the Beef Check-off, to talk about how he fuels his body and mind for his adventures. Follow his blog at SeeDaneRun.
We are pleased to announce a new partnership with the Delaware Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
JDRF is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. Driven by passionate, grassroots volunteers connected to children, adolescents, and adults with this disease, JDRF is now the largest charitable supporter of T1D research. The goal of JDRF research is to improve the lives of all people affected by T1D by accelerating progress on the most promising opportunities for curing, better treating, and preventing T1D. JDRF collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners who share this goal. Since its founding in 1970, JDRF has awarded more than $1.6 billion to diabetes research. Past JDRF efforts have helped to significantly advance the care of people with this disease, and have expanded the critical scientific understanding of T1D. JDRF will not rest until T1D is fully conquered. More than 80 percent of JDRF’s expenditures directly support research and research-related education.
For more information about the local office of JDRF visit www.jdrf.org/delaware, call (302) 888-1117 or email Delaware@jdrf.org.
Registration postcards will be mailed to our 17,000 member mailing list and monthly status updates will be posted to the website. We’ve also decided to do gender specific short sleeve tech shirts in 2013, courtesy of New Balance Brandywine / Christiana. While the colors have yet to be formalized. There will be one color for girls and another for boys. Also, we will do personalized bib numbers for the marathon (and hopefully the half marathon) and text/email alerts of splits and finishing times for the marathon and half marathon. Also, NKS Distributors will again do pint glasses and Aztec Printing will again do Memo from a Delaware Marathoner memo pads for all runners.
We are pleased to announce registration is now open for the tenth annual 2013 Christiana Care Health System Delaware Marathon™ Running Festival presented by New Balance Brandywine & Christiana to be held Sunday, May 12, 2013 in Wilmington, Delaware. You may register for the Marathon and Half Marathon online (with a major credit card) at Raceit.com. CLICK HERE to register online. You may also register for the 4 Person Relay Marathon online (must pay for entire team) at Raceit.com. CLICK HERE to register online. Alternately, you may download our pdf application form and mail in your registration(s). CLICK HERE for our PDF application form.
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