Course

Run through history and a Florida landscape largely the same as it was nearly 70 years ago.

Our course through Cape Canaveral history is open to runners and walkers.

However, there is a HARD 3 hour time limit on the course. Any entrants still on the course at this time will be picked up by a support vehicle and taken to the finish line area.

Friendly and experienced will help you meet or beat your estimated time goals for the half marathon.

Look for your pacer and their time on race morning as they will be wearing BRIGHT NEON PACER tanks.

Pacers will leave the starting area based on projected times. Times will be posted soon.

The post-race festivities will end by 10:30 a.m. and all runners bused back to pre-race staging areas by this time.

This is a point-to-point course. All runners & spectators will be transported from the finish line party at the lighthouse to the starting area where your cars will be located.

Here are some highlights from the course:

10 K MAP

10 MILER WILL FOLLOW MUCH OF 10K COURSE. FINAL COURSE MAP WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY LATER SEPTEMBER.

When your 10 miler and 10-k course is here and has street names like this, you’ve got something special….

* Start on Phillips Parkway
* Right on Pier Road
* Left to enter Museum Circle
* Left on Lighthouse Road
* Right on IRBM Road
* Right on Flight Control Road
* Merge onto Lighthouse Road (finish line for 10K runners)
* Left on Control Tower Road (for half marathon runners)
* Enter Historic Skid Strip Runway
* Exit Skid Strip
* Right on Skid Strip Road
* Right on Mercury Gemini Road
* Right on Central Control Road
* Right on Lighthouse Road and past Complex 36 Blue Origin Launch Site to finish line at Florida’s 150-year-old Lighthouse.

Pre-Race Staging

February 1, 2018

Runners will stage pre-race just outside the gates of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and with pre-dawn views of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building and Kennedy Space Center in the distance.

Race Start

March 1, 2018

Start near the Air Force’s Sands Space History Center and the SpaceX Launch & Landing Control building.

Bunkers & Blockhouses

March 4, 2018

Bunkers and blockhouses from the pioneering days of our space program are part of our route.

The Real Florida

March 4, 2018

Beautiful and natural Florida vegetation untouched for more than six decades is a recurring part of our route.

Launch Tower

March 4, 2018

One of several launch complexes and towers on our route

Air Force Space Museum

March 13, 2018

Run through the Air Force Space Museum and past a Redstone Rocket identical to the one that hoisted Alan Shepard into space on May 5, 1961, making him the first American in space.

Explorer 1 Launchpad

March 15, 2018

Runners will pass directly by where it all started in 1958 — launch pad used for Explorer 1, America’s First Satellite launch aboard a Bumper rocket.

Race Ends

March 31, 2018

Our race officially ends at our historic Cape Canaveral Lighthouse with a post-race celebration featuring refreshments, pizza, beer and our awards ceremony.

The race will be chip-timed by Sommer Sports of Clermont, Florida.