Get Out Your Running Shoes!  for the USAF Marathon at WPAFB

UPDATE:  Number of Marathon Entrants up 130% over last year --
on track for
Ten Thousand ++ Runners!

Air Force Marathon set for
Sept. 20,2008 at Wright_Patt AFB

Air Force Marathon Promotion
from Air Force.
Air Force Services officials will hold the Twelfth annual Air Force Marathon at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, on Sept. 20, 2008

The Wright Patterson AFB marathon will also include:

• a half-AF marathon
• AF Marathon wheelchair race
• WPAFB Marathon a four-person relay
• Wright-Patt Marathon 5k race.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University will partner for the annual WPAFB Air Force Marathon, that has been adopted as the Official Air Force Marathon.

The Wright Patt Marathon is open to the public.
The course is a certified 26.2-mile run that starts and ends at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and traverses historical places on Wright-Patterson, including:

• the Air Force Institute of Technology
• Air Force Materiel Command headquarters
• the Wright-Patterson flightline
• Wright Brothers Memorial Monument.
  Bill Rogers, a four-time winner of the Boston and New York City marathons and a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic marathon team, along with Alberto Salazar, who set six U.S. records, a world record and won three consecutive New York marathons, participate in the races.

The Air Force Marathon will begin and end at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The intermediate route will traverse parts of the Huffman Prairie, site of the Wright Brothers early experiments with flight; and parts of the Wright State University campus.
Register for Marathon Click Here.
The Air Force Marathon has been flying high and Air Force Services Agency officials recently approved it as an official Air Force event. The marathon began in 1997 as Wright Patterson’s tribute, this year, to the 51st anniversary of the Air Force- marking the fifty-one years since the United States Army Air Corps morphed into the United State Air Force on September 18, 1947. 
“Becoming the official Air Force Marathon brings credibility to it,” said M. Scott Nunnelly, of the Air Force Services Agency.
The Air Force Marathon is already a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon.
For more information, people can visit the Air Force Marathon Web site at www.usafmarathon.com and www.usafmarathonhotels.com or call (937) 257-4350 or (800) 467-1823. by Steve VanWert
Air Force Services Agency Public Affairs

• Contact Information

  USAF Marathon 88 MSG/SVC Services Marathon Office 5215 Thurlow Street Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-5542 Phone 937.257.4350 Toll-Free 800.467.1823 Fax 937.656.1000	Sponsorship USAF Marathon 88 MSG/SVK Services Sponsorship Office 5215 Thurlow Street Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433-5542 Phone 937.257.8586 Fax 937.656.1803
  E-mail usaf.marathon@wpafb.af.mil

  
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