Sunrise at Old Tucson Details

Here’s an update on Sunrise at Old Tucson Cross Country Trail Run.  First, the courses look to be 4.0 miles and 1.1 miles; breakfast will be eggs, tortillas, juice, chips and more; every child in the free kid’s run gets a sheriff’s badge; and every registrant gets a great t-shirt—burnt orange for men, black or tangerine in a women’s cut.  Make a day of it: free admission to Old Tucson with additional discount tickets of $8 available for purchase before the race, plus a free pass to the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum good all year.  Finally, your bib number gets you free entry into the Wildlife Museum on Sunday.

Online registration has been extended to Friday, March 5th at noon.  You can also visit the Running Shop (3055 N Campbell) on Saturday from 10-3 to register and pick up your number and shirt.  Finally, packet pick up and registration is also on Saturday, March 7th at Old Tucson Studios from 6:45-8:00 am.  The races start at 8:30 am!

The John Wayne Cancer Foundation will be on hand promoting their Team Duke fundraising teams—last year, they had some great giveaways!  We’ll also have official race photographers from Cox Sports Photos taking photos, plus a film crew from Cox Communications. 

We will start in the heart of Main Street, heading south, then do a large loop throughout the main grounds of Old Tucson.  At the mile mark, the shorter race will see the finish area at Bitter Creek (where we started and finished last year), while the longer race will head out to the single track and dirt road trails on the grounds of Old Tucson for a 2 mile zig-zaggy loop.  The final mile of the race is the same loop around the inner grounds of Old Tucson, with the finish at Bitter Creek—where breakfast and cowboys and cowgirls await!  The trails will be marked with red flagging, and we’re scheduled to have about 30 UofA Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity students out on the course . . .

Overall prizes and age group awards and raffle awards will be provided by The Running Shop, Old Tucson Studios, and Team Duke.  Thanks to the Running Shop for all their help with the logo and concept, plus their years of doing Sundown at the Pass!