TMC Meet Me Downtown 5k Night Run/Walk and Festival of Miles

Tucson, AZ, USA
04 Jun, 2022 (Sat)

Running

1 mi, 5 km

About the event

Get back at it & join us for the 16th Annual TMC Meet Me Downtown 5k Run/Walk and Festival of Miles

Southern Arizona's biggest event returns to its customary nighttime party roots in dynamic Downtown Tucson.  Adults will love the beer garden, live music, food trucks, and Hotel Congress after-party, while families will enjoy the roaming magician, jumping castles, free kids mile and free entry to the Children's Museum.  Come one, come all.  Start me up and check out the YouTube race video from Lahiru's World!

June 3 Update:  Online registration has ended, but you can still register in-person on Friday night from 3-6pm at The Running Shop (3055 North Campbell) and on Saturday from 5:00-6:30 pm at the race site, 200 South Sixth Avenue. Registration is via cash or check.

In-Person Registration Pricing: Free for the SAR U-12 FitKidz and the High School Mile, $20 for Open Mile, $40 for TMC 5k Night Run

NOTE: Click here for the final pre-race email to all participants, with all the information you'll need to have a fantastic race weekend.  Details on packet pickup, the beer garden, race maps, parking, kids activities and more . . . 

NOTE: We've sold out of race shirts, so while in-person registrants will get a race number, a timed race, and other post-race goodies, they can only pick up a souvenir shirt AFTER the race on Saturday night on a first-come, first-served basis at the registration tables. All remaining shirts will be brought to the Running Shop and available for remainder pickup until the end of June.

WEAR ORANGE AND GET A MEDAL! June 3rd is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The first 100 people who wear orange to packet pickup today, June 3rd, will receive a coaster medal from one of our previous races.

May 31 Update: We have reached the limit of 900 souvenir TMC Night Run t-shirts.  Thus, all who register AFTER May 31st at noon will not be guaranteed a souvenir white race shirt, but will be eligible to pick up any remaining shirts on race night AFTER 7:00 pm on June 4th. NOTE:  late Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown registrants will still receive a commemorative GabeZ Run Tucson shirt and a souvenir Triple Crown medal!

Click here for the vacation discount to a new combined Downtown Tucson hotel, the Home2 Suites by Hilton Downtown Tucson.  

Meet Me Downtown Fun Run - Home2 Suites Tucson Downtown

Meet Me Downtown Fun Run - Hampton Inn Tucson Downtown

NOTE: We've added a Free High School Mile. The goal is to celebrate our local high school athletes who have finished up their track season and help motivate 'em to start cross country practice. Anyone in high school (or junior high) can sign up for the Free High School Mile. If we get enough to run a separate heat after the Open Mile, but we may add them to the Open Mile.

Description Wide Downtown boulevards with neighbor support leads to fast course, plus prize money for top finishers and age group awards in 5-year categories from The Running Shop11th Annual Running Race Food Truck Round Up, with local vendors offering food and drinks for purchaseThe TMC Meet Me Downtown 5k Night Run is scheduled to be part of the SAR 2022 "Running Shop Grand Prix"Free SAR FitKidz Mile, for all children under 12Beneficiaries: Help us raise funds for local charities -- use the "Donate" button to provide funds to the charity of your choice.  This year, we are raising funds for education and youth, so please help us support the Children's Museum, Educational Enrichment Foundation, Greater Tucson Leadership, and the BEYOND-Tucson Foundation. What You Get The first 900 registrants in the TMC 5k and Open Mile receive a souvenir "TMC Meet Me Downtown" race shirt, in either a v-neck cut or unisex cut, shirt sizing first-come, first-servedFirst 500 Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown registrants receive the commemorative Gabe Z "RunTucson" shirt and the souvenir Gabe Z medalAll FitKidz children receive the standard FitKidz goodies provided by the Southern Arizona Roadrunners Planned Race Weekend Schedule

Friday, June 3, Registration and Packet Pickup
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm, at The Running Shop, 3055 North Campbell Ave

You can pick up your souvenir items in person Friday, first come, first served basis. Others can still register in person at The Running Shop.The white TMC Meet Me Downtown souvenir shirts for the 5k and Mile and all race bib numbers for the 5k, the 1-mile, and the FitKidz mile will be inside the Running Shop.Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown: you can pick up your Triple Crown souvenir medallion and your souvenir GabeZ shirt at the tent in front of the Running Shop. (You will still have to go inside to get your TMC Meet Me Downtown white shirt and race number.)

Yes: You can pick up items for friends -- please limit the number of packet pickups if it is crowded.
Yes: Shirts come in both standard unisex and v-neck cut.
Yes: T-shirt sizing first come, first served.
Yes: Please follow the Running Shop's posted public health protocols.
Yes: It may be crowded, but please be kind to the staff at the Running Shop and the volunteers.
Yes: You can shop at the Running Shop, so bring your wallet and buy all sorts of running goodies for yourself!
Yes: You can snag your souvenirs and do the event virtually, so if you have to miss race night, you can fill in your VIRTUAL RACE INFO here.

Saturday, June 4, Race Night Schedule
5:00 - 6:30 TMC 5k Registration and Packet Pickup, 200 South Sixth Avenue

We're setting up a chute-based system in front of the Children's Museum for those who pick up their race items on race day and for those who want to register in person on race day. You'll enter from the north, then first get your race number, then get your white TMC Meet Me Downtown shirt, if eligible. If you have not registered for the Triple Crown, you can then leave the chute. If you have registered for the Triple Crown, continue along the chute to receive your souvenir medallion and your souvenir GabeZ shirt from the BEYOND tent, then exit the chute system to the south.


Yes: T-shirt sizing first come, first served.

6:00 pm Start Open Mile Race -- for all ages, all abilities, all bodies, with prize money and finisher medals. We may add the High School Mile to this race.

6:30 pm SAR FitKidz Mile Warmup with Manuel -- check out the FitKidz tent near the Children's Museum.

6:30 pm Start SAR FitKidz Mile -- free for all children under 12

7:00 pm Start TMC 5k Run/Walk -- for all ages, all abilities, all bodies, with prize money and age group awards. See farther below for awards details.
The race is chip-timed
All prize money will be based on gun-time, all age-group awards will be chip-time.
Because the race is an out-and-back chip-timed course, runners may start at any time between 7:00 pm and 7:10 pm.

8:30 or so Awards
5k Age Group awards courtesy of The Running Shop
Prize Money courtesy of TMC and Run Tucson

Post-Race: After-Party at Hotel Congress, 311 E Congress. Bring your race number to get drink discounts.

#mmd5K  #runtucson  #runsar  

Donations: All of our local organizations are feeling the pain of this public health crisis.  You can help by using the "Donate" button to provide funds to the charity of your choice.

Greater Tucson LeadershipChildren's Museum, TucsonEducational Enrichment FoundationBEYOND-TUCSON, beneficiary of the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown.

Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists, heading up the beer garden

For those interested in the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown 3-race series, we're committed to providing $10 from every Triple Crown registration to the BEYOND-Tucson Foundation.  

Thanks to Cox Communications, Cox Charities, Radiology Limited, and Tucson Medical Center!

Please note that the State of Arizona has recently enacted the marketplace facilitator law requiring RunSignUp to collect and submit sales tax on ecommerce transactions. TMC Meet Me Downtown was founded by Randy and Tia Accetta 16 years ago to promote Downtown Tucson by providing fitness and social opportunties for all ages and abilities.  Produced in partnership with the Southern Arizona Roadrunners, the TMC Meet Me Downtown has provided over $270,000 to local organizations over the years.

Races offered by this event

Open Mile

04 Jun, 2022 (Sat) - 18:00
Running
1 mi
Solo
On site
Road

5k Run/Walk

04 Jun, 2022 (Sat) - 19:00
Running
5 km
Solo
On site
Road
Night

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