This final pre-summer Half Marathon & 5K will wind up your distance race season with a bang! The courses are flat and fast and the race features top quality shirts, custom finisher medals and awards, a very picturesque course and an awesome post race party beside a small lake.
The Plantation Building Corporation Half Marathon and Connected Home 5K
will take place in Brunswick Forest, the premier planned community on the east coast, on Sunday May 3, 2015. The race site is 6 miles from downtown Wilmington, NC and 11 miles from Wrightsville Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches on the east coast. Early May is a great time to visit our area and experience an awesome race to boot!
The race course travels over paved
running trails, through a nature area on a 1/3 mile long boardwalk,
loops a small lake on a running trail by the shore and travels through
the lightly traveled neighborhoods of the community.
- Picturesque 2-loop Half Marathon course and a fun & flat 5K course
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Custom Half Marathon finisher medal
- Gender specific race shirts in the PBC Half Marathon, very nice 5K shirts
- Inside locker rooms and bathrooms available before and after the race
- Half Marathon early start for athletes doing greater than a 2:30 or greater half marathon
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Post race party/awards in a park setting beside a small lake
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The awards ceremony features adult beverages, prize drawings, costume contest and good snacks including Brunswick stew.
All courtesy of our great Sponsors:
Title Sponsors: Plantation Building Corporation, Connected Home A/V and Brunswick Forest,
as well as:
Professional Builders Supply, Hollingsworth Cabinetry, Old Growth River wood, Ferguson Enterprises, O'Malley Foot & Ankle, Strick's LP Gas, Custom Touch Drywall, Standard Insurance and Trysports.
Visit the website of any of our sponsors if you are thinking about remodeling, building or purchasing a home, or visit Trysports or Strick's LP Gas for athletics or grillin supplies. These companies support the activities that we all enjoy and are providers of quality goods and services.
Race Information:
Packets/Registration Saturday May 2nd:
11:00 - 12:30 pm Fleet Feet Sports at the Forum at Mayfaire in Wilmington.
3:30 - 5:00 pm Brunswick Forest Fitness Center 2701 Brunswick Forest Pkwy, Leland NC 28451
PACKETS RACE MORNING starting at 6:00 am in the Fitness Center at Brunswick Forest.
(Inside bathrooms and dressing rooms available for athlete's
use on race morning in the Fitness Center)
There will be (7) Water Stops on the course with cold water
and Gatorade at all water stops. There will be ice at the last two
water stops. There is no food provided at the water stops.
The Brunswick Forest community is located 6 miles south of Wilmington, NC on
highway 17. It's a beautiful planned community with great amenities
including two pools, championship golf courses and an excellent Fitness Center where packet pickup, race awards and post race party will be held. We'll have good
snacks and free beer for post race recovery, and prize drawings for
items supplies by our great sponsors.
Awards: Plantation Building Corp Half
Marathon Awards are 2-deep in 5 year Age Groups.
Winner Awards for Open
and Masters go 3-deep M/F 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Awards in the Connected Home
5K are 2-deep M/F in 5-year age groups and winners awards are 1st, 2nd,
3rd M/F Open.
Race Charities:
We are donating money to HelpHopeLive which is a national non-profit that helps people dealing with severe medical crisis. A donation from each Connected Home 5K registration goes this organization in honor of Brooke Span who is battling against autoimmune hepatitis and will require a liver transplant in the near future. Brooke is the wife of Daniel Spann who is a project manager for our Title Sponsor Plantation Building Corporation. You will also see a donation question as you register allowing you to support Brooke in her fight against this disease. Please donate whatever you can. Here is a link to Brooke's fund raising page.
We are also raising money for "SHE ROCKS" which is a local non-profit working to raise awareness and funds for combating ovarian cancer. If you did last year's race you know that Beth Quinn did the 2014 Connected Home 5K while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. It was a wonderful experience for all of us who were involved last year. Thankfully, this year Beth is cancer free and has started SHE ROCKS to help other women who may suffer from this terrible disease. A portion of each SHE ROCKS 5K Team entry fee will go to this excellent local non-profit organization. She ROCKS is supported by Cape Fear CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and other organizations involved in supporting women in our community.
