4Star 4Mile Race

🎖️ Race Overview

In celebration of Veterans Day, join us for the 9th Annual 4Star 4Mile Race located at the Dean Savage Memorial Park (corner of Trumbull and Porter Street) in Corktown on Sunday, November 9th, 2025, at 11:00 AM. Let's put our running shoes on the ground to honor those who have dedicated their lives to our freedom.

• Race Date: November 9th, 2025
• Location: Dean Savage Memorial Park, Detroit, MI
• Time: 11:00 AM
• Race Link: 4Star 4Mile Race

🎉 Community Spirit

Come together with fellow participants and supporters to show your gratitude and support and enjoy the parade and post-race celebrations. This tradition is a truly exciting experience you won't soon forget. More than just a race, it is a heartfelt tribute to those who have served our country. Show your pride and wear red, white and blue!

• Experience: Heartfelt tribute to veterans
• Community: Gather and celebrate
• Tradition: Engaging and memorable
• Colors: Wear red, white and blue!

🏃 Fitness and Fun

Bring the family! Watch the parade as you run alongside a Medal of Honor recipient, World War II veterans, marching bands, Junior ROTC students and more.

• Family-Friendly: All ages can participate
• Parade: Experience the festivities live
• Participants: Run with military honors
• Excitement: High-energy event environment

🎒 Ruck Division

Ruckers will earn a commemorative ruck patch at the finish line as their participation award.

• New Feature: Ruck Division added
• Award: Commemorative ruck patch
• Participation: Engages more veterans
• Challenge: Added layer of fitness

⏰ Event Start Times

11:00 AM: 4Star4Mile Race & the Annual Detroit Veterans Day Parade

📅 Packet Pick-Up

• Early Packet Pick-up: 12:30 - 3:30 PM Saturday November 8th at Batch Brewing Company, 1400 Porter St, Detroit
• Race Day Packet Pick-up: 8:30 - 11:00 AM inside the IBEW building, enter from the back parking area at the rear of the IBEW building, at the intersection of Porter and Trumbull.

🏁 Race Course

Out and back loop that runs alongside the annual Detroit Veterans Day parade (Same start, same finish, same time). Run past “The Corner”, the newly renovated Michigan Train Station and into Mexican Town before heading back to the finish line.

🏆 Awards

• Top Overall: Male/Female
• Top Masters: (40 and up) Male/Female
• Overall Military/Veteran: Male/Female
• Age Group: 10 YEAR Age Group Awards Male/Female

💬 Our Mission Statement

The men and women who leave military service often leave behind a sense of community, purpose, and identity. The community they leave behind is their military community: the purpose they leave behind is what type of work their unit performed and the identity they leave is their specific role in their unit. It is difficult to replace those things as they transition into civilian life, so it is no wonder that veterans often feel marginalized. The mission of the 4Star4Mile Race is to provide a platform for a shared experience between our communities and our veterans. For civilians, as they run alongside the annual Veterans Day parade, they see, and can feel, the immense pride and commitment of those who served and who continue to serve, and for the veterans they see that our communities recognize our proud history and applaud our commitment, helping to provide a true sense of community and purpose that veterans long for and deserve. It is the hope of the 4Star4Mile Race that this provides for a mutually beneficial, supportive experience.

💖 Charity

This is a charitable event with proceeds going to the annual Detroit Veterans Day Parade.