After the successful inaugural run of the Marathon Project in 2020, it is returning in 2025 offering a weekend of events. Held at the Wild Horse Pass Resort in Chandler, Arizona, on Saturday December 20, the Gold Wave Marathon will feature 500 men and 500 women in a premier amateur event, followed by the professional event on the Sunday with 100 men and 100 women, hoping to set the fastest marathon times in the U.S.
The event will offer a personal water bottle service to all 1,200 runner participating in the the two marathons.
Gold Wave participants will be asked if they wish to participate in the program, and can drop off their labelled personal bottles at package pick up. (Professional participants have a separate drop off). Bottles will be taken to the fluid tables on race day by volunteers.
Each athlete will receive bottles at six different times along the course, one per each 4.26-mile (6.85 kilometre) loop. There will be 125 tables on the course to accommodate the 1,000 runners in the Saturday marathon. Organizers say this will be the largest personal bottles program in marathon history.
For more information: www.themarathonproject.com.
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