4.1. Start
Participants are required to start in their designated race pen.
All participants must get into their starting pen at the assigned entry points. Illegal entering such as climbing over the fence will be disqualified from the event.
Any participant late for their races’ start time or attempting to enter a start pen to which they are not assigned will be required to start after all other participants have crossed the start line (start at the last pen).
All participants are responsible for knowing the event’s start times, of individuals’ respective races, and check-in method for their pen. All participants must remain in their pen at the appointed time to receive further instructions and get into the official start line of the race. In order to maintain safety, late-arriving participants must report to the last pen.
4.2. Time Limit
The Event has a maximum race day finish time of 7 hours measured from the Marathon Start time. The Marathon course will reopen for public use on a rolling schedule based on this time limit. The aid stations will also be closed at the same time as the streets re-opened.
The event time requirement applies to all forms of entry and event participation.
4.3. Sportsmanship
Participants shall immediately and respectfully comply with the directions of any race official, event staff, and government authority. Participants may not make any public protest or display of disgust with regards to the application of these rules or any decision of any race marshal or official.
No Participant shall make a bad-faith protest against any other participants.
4.4. Conduct & Interference
At all times during the race, Participants will act with due consideration of the safety and rights of other participants. Regardless of the circumstances or competitive disadvantage, no participant shall commit any act that endangers any other participant. Participants shall not intentionally obstruct, impede or interfere with the forward progress of another participant. Actions such as these are safety hazards and participants endangering others will be banned from future events or organizer and associates of the organizer in the region.
4.5. Course-Cutting
Participants must remain on the race course, which is determined by the roadway’s edges and curbs or the marks and cones. Those who intentionally shorten the race route, or “course cutting” will be considered disqualified. Any participant that abandons the race course, no matter the reason, must re-enter the race at the last post or else will also be disqualified for course-cutting. Moreover, a course-cutting violation can be decided by eye-witness reports, surveillance equipment and video or failure to register times at timing mats or present in race photography. Participants whose split times are missing or irregular at official timing checkpoints will be reanalyzed and considered for disqualification.
4.6. Unauthorized Persons
Only participants who registered to join the race are allowed along the course, start & finish area. No other person is authorized to be on the course unless they are registered participants. All unauthorized persons and not having issued BIB numbers shall be directed to leave the course.
4.7. Participant safety
For the safety of the participant and the others around him/her, participants are not allowed to carry more than what is necessary for the race.
You may have with you while running the following:
- Pocket-sized audio player and headphones
- Pocket-sized cellular phone
- Pocket-sized photographic devices (example mini-sport cameras only)
- Hydration bottles and fuel belts
- Flags that can fit in the pocket, must be non-commercial
- Hydration bags and belts (specifically only for hydration and nutrition)
Prohibited items include:
- Selfie sticks, camera mount which is not attached directly to the head or torso
- Weapons & sharp objects
- Signs & banners larger than 30cm x 45cm
- Duvets, sleeping bags, and large blankets or comforters
- Alcoholic beverages and illegal substances of any kind
- Flycam, unmanned aerial devices, and any other flying device
The use of wheeled devices by participants is strictly limited to authorized and officially registered wheelchair and handcycle participants, baby joggers, baby strollers. Skateboards, rollerblades, unauthorized bicycles or any other wheeled device are not permitted in Marathon & Half Marathon races.
No animals of any kind, including dogs, may be brought on the course or into the Start or Finish line areas.
An infant or child cannot be carried at any point on the race course or in the Start or Finish line areas.
4.8. Directions from Officials
Participants must retire immediately from the race if ordered to do so by a member of the race’s official staff, official medical staff, or any governmental authority, including fire and police officers.
Race officials will have the right to reserve the right to delay, cancel, or suspend the race due to safety or security concerns, weather.
4.9. Directions from Medical Officials
Authorized medical personnel will have the right to require a participant to stop at any point on the race course for an examination. Medical personnel may remove a participant from the race if it is in the best interest of the participant’s health and welfare. Any participant who fails to immediately accept the direction of an authorized medical personnel will be disqualified and may be banned from future races. Participants allowed by medical personnel to continue the race course will not have received any illegal assistance and not be penalized.
Participants need to take full responsibility for any and all medical expenses incurred as a result of training for and/or participation in the race, including but not limited to ambulance transport, hospital stays, physician, pharmaceutical goods and services.