Sunshine Double

🏃‍♂️Race Details

• Dates: Saturday, May 2, 2025 and Sunday, May 3, 2025
• Place: Cady Way Park (Trailhead), 2529 Cady Way, Winter Park, FL 32792
• What: Labor Day Triple-- 50K, Marathon, Half marathon, 10K, and 5K each day
• Start Times: Marathon and 50K -- 5:30 am: Half Marathon -- 5:40: 5K and 10K -- 7:00

🅿️Parking Information

• Location: Cady Way Park. GPS coordinates: N 28.59458, W -081.31670.
• Overflow Parking: Nearby overflow parking available.
• Convenience: A school is located across the street for additional parking.

⚠️Important Notices

• Start Times: Refer to details above.
• Course Certification: Courses are not certified and not a Boston qualifier.
• Awards: No age group awards or t-shirts will be provided.
• Hydration: This is a cupless race: please bring your own bottle.

🔍Event Expectations

STOP! Keep reading! Know what you're signing up for. These events are no frills, low-key, casual, and fun events. Great for first timers, maybe not so great for a PR. This is NOT a certified or sanctioned course—meaning, among other things, NOT a Boston qualifier. Don’t expect much. Maybe you won’t be very disappointed.

🚫What You Don’t Get

WHAT YOU DON’T GET: t-shirt, hat, socks, or any other apparel, great bling (actually, any bling), cute reusable race bag, age group awards, spectators lining the course, crowds cheering you in, hot food at the finish, exciting music, and a party afterward, all on a certified course. There are lots of other events out there that have those things.

✅What You Do Get

WHAT YOU DO GET: low entry fees (which is why you don't get that other stuff), courses that are guaranteed not short, a simple finisher’s medal, a generous time limit, and a published finish time. But isn’t that all you really need? You know you want to sign up. Really, where else can you run a marathon for $65?

🏞️Course Details

COURSES: The courses are lap courses, meaning that you’ll do a short loop multiple times. This means you’ll see other runners going and coming, which is not as boring as it might sound. The paved, urban run/bike trail is flat and largely shaded. This is an open course and includes two street crossings each lap. You are responsible for crossing safely. More course details can be found under Detailed Course Descriptions above.

• Marathon/Half Marathon/50K Lap: Approximately 2.2 miles. The full marathon is twelve laps, the half is six laps, and the 50K is fourteen laps plus two short laps at the end.
• 5K/10K Lap: Approximately 1.55 miles—two laps for the 5K and four laps for the 10K.
• Turnarounds: Clearly marked for each distance with rubber bands available to help you keep track of your laps.

💧Start/Finish/Aid Station

The only aid station is at the start/finish location, which you will pass twice each lap. Even though we are a no-frills event, we will provide chilled water, Gatorade, Coke, Diet Mountain Dew, and sweet and salty snacks. In hot weather, we will also have pickles, olives, and pickle juice. This is a cupless race. Bring your own hydration device—water bottle, hydration belt/pack. We'll have a table for your water bottles.

☀️Weather Considerations

HEAT: Florida is typically hot and humid. We will provide ice for your water/Gatorade, hat, water bottle, etc. We will also have ice water in a bucket for you to dip your hat, cooling towel, etc. We will also have pickles, olives, and pickle juice, as well as a variety of salty snacks.

🚻Bathroom Facilities

The bathrooms are a little walk from the start/finish, but you’ll pass them during each lap.

💡Lighting Suggestions

It will be just starting to break daylight at the start. (Sunrise is at 6:44.) We recommend you have a light for the first half hour.

🎒Drop Bag Information

The start/finish is in a small pavilion, where you may leave a drop bag.

⏱️Finish Line Procedures

When you finish, ring the bell, or be sure to let the timer know you’re finished. Without this, you won’t get a finish time—or at least not an accurate time. Remember we are hand-timed—no timing chips! We don't know to record your time if you don't tell us you’re done.

🏆About the Participants

If you are still undecided (congratulations for reading this far), and you want to know what to expect, we won’t likely have world-class athletes based on speed, but we will likely have world-class athletes based on numbers of marathons completed. For example, in 2024 we had the top three men in North America and the number one and number three female marathoners in North America. Think four-digit numbers. Just imagine the stories!

🙋Volunteer Opportunities

VOLUNTEERS: We always need volunteers. Each full volunteer day earns a free long run (half marathon or full marathon) or two short runs (5K or 10K).

🔗Registration Link

For more information and to register, please visit: Sunshine Double