Heels and Hills Half Marathon, 10K, 5K, & 1 Mile Fun Run

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Race Date: Sunday, May 6, 2012 - Our Sixth Year Celebration!

Distances: Half Marathon (13.1 Miles), 10K (6.2 miles), 5K (3.1 Miles), and 1 Mile Fun Run.

Aid Stations: For the 5K, there will be one aid station with water only. For the 10K and half marathon, there are aid stations every 2 to 2.5 miles with water and sports drink available at each, except for water only at the first aid station about 2 miles in.

Awards:
Half Marathon:

  • FEMALE – Overall 1st place and Masters 1st place
  • FEMALE – The age group awards:14 & under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and over. Awards will be given for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place in each age group.
  • 1st place awarded in Athena for females only.
  • All half marathon finishers receive a finisher's medal.

10K:

  • MALE & FEMALE – Overall 1st place and Masters 1st place
  • MALE & FEMALE– The age groups awards:14 & under, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and over. Awards will be given for 1st place in each age group.
  • 1st place awarded in Athena for females only.

5K:

  • MALE & FEMALE – Overall 1st place and Masters 1st place
  • MALE & FEMALE– The age groups awards:10 & under, 11-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70 and over. Awards will be given for 1st place in each age group.
  • 1st place awarded in Athena for females only.
     
 

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Focused on women - 85-90%of participants each year are women. While men are welcome to participate, they can not win awards in the half marathon, since the focus is on women.

Beautiful course - city paved trail weaves through woods, along the city canal system, by ponds, and beautiful neighborhoods

A Shirt You Will WANT To Wear Again - Technical gender-specific (men versus women's sizing) dry-wicking running shirts for those in the half marathon, 10K and 5K. Cotton t-shirt for 1 Mile entrants.

Finisher medal for half marathoners

Unusual award categories - in addition to age group awards, there is a weight division for women (Athena) and awards for moms of small children!

Aid stations with water and sports drink every 2.0-2.5 miles

Walker friendly with a course time limit of 4 hours

Bib personalized with your name on it! (if registered by April 1)

Other Award Categories:

  • Athena - women whose weight is over 150 pounds
  • Choosing to enter in this award division means you will not be eligible for any age group awards.

Top overall finisher awards are based on gun time. Age group finisher awards are based on chip times.

No awards or results in the 1 Mile Fun Run.

Bag Drop:
Since we have onsite parking capability, there will not be a bag drop area. 

Chip Timing Info:
Timing chips will be available at packet pickup Friday and Saturday, and then race day morning at packet pickup only from 6:00-7:15 am (note: first race starts at 7:30, so arrive early!). We will again be using the IPICO chip timing system.  The IPICO RFID timing system works by reading your start and finish times when you cross over the mats at the start/finish line.    

This flat IPICO chip/tag is attached to your shoe flat against the shoelaces.  You don't have to unlace your shoes, just slip the laces through the holes and tie your shoe normally.  This saves on so many pieces of plastic chip tie waste!
 
These chips are reusable.  After the race, please return your chip.  We'll have volunteers there with white buckets to collect the chip from you.
 
If you own a ChampionChip, it will not work with this system. 
All events except the 1 Mile are chip timed. 

Course: A couple years ago, the City of Irving asked Heels and Hills to showcase their beautiful Campion Trails, and we're happy to work with them as the city paved trail weaves through woods, along the city canal system, by ponds, and beautiful neighborhoods! The course features these trails and the streets in the Las Colinas Blvd / Williams Square area. The word "hills" in the race is part of the "cute" name and not literal. The first two years of the race used a different course which had some hills, but the course for the last three years, since starting to utilize Campion Trails, is fairly flat.

The 5K and 10K is a shortened version of the half marathon course.

We do not publish a course map or elevation chart. USAT&F Course: TX11059ETM

Course Time Limit: Walker-friendly time limit of 4 hours (that's a pace of 18 minutes per mile for the half marathon).

Event Shirts:

5K, 10K and Half Marathon Entrants: Gender-specific (men's versus women's sizing) technical fabric dry-wicking running shirt!

1 Mile Entrants: Cotton race t-shirt available in Youth and Adult sizes.

Choices are available while supplies last. We will remove choices of sizes and styles as we run out of inventory, since shirts have to ordered months in advance based on a guess of what sizes and styles will be chosen.

Packet Pickup:
All details available here...

Race Day Schedule:
6:00 am – Race Day Packet Pickup and Chip Pickup
7:10 am – 1 Mile Fun Run Start
7:15 am – Packet Pickup and Chip Pickup ENDS
7:30 am – Half Marathon Start
7:35 am – 10K Start
7:45 am – 5K Start
9:15 am – Estimated time of 5K Awards
9:30 am – Estimated time of 10K Awards
10:00 am – Estimated time of Half Marathon Awards
11:30 am – Half Marathon Course Closes
There will be no race day registration.

Race Photography:
Provided by SportPhoto

Race Site / Parking:
Click here for all the info...

Recognition of Special Groups
Mother/Daughter Pairs
Teams - have all friends put down the same name. Special recognition for biggest team!

Spectator Guide
Our Spectator Guide shows 3 spots on the race course where family and friends can go watch and cheer the runners! Copies will not be provided at packet pickup or race day morning, so print it off to bring with you.

 

All Items on This Page Subject to Change!

Last revised November 29, 2011

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