IMPORTANT RACE DAY INFORMATION

RACE DAY SCHEDULE

Everything takes place at Centennial Park or across the parking lot at 245 North Garden Street, Hot Springs, SD 57747

Look for REGISTRATION in one of the two white tents in front of the small green building between the church and the Mason hall.

PACKET PICKUP/LATE REGISTRATION:
SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 28 2023
5:30 to 6:30 pm
Late registration/sign-in/packet pickup. You are encouraged to come  SUNDAY to ease the process on Monday morning. 

MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023

9:00 am to 10:00 am: Sign-in, packet pickup and late registration. 

Limber-up on the lawn, get to know your fellow climbers, hydrate.

9:30 am: Half Marathoners meet with Race Director at registration tent

9:55 am: Half Marathoners at Start line

10:00 am: Half Marathon shotgun start

10:30 am: 5K/2M Program/housekeeping 

10:50 am: 5K/2M Line up at start line

11:00 am: 5K/2M Shotgun start 

12:30-1:00 pm (approximate): 1st Place Awards all events

1:00 pm COURSE CLOSES — Aid station volunteers will be released; route signs for half marathoners will stay up until 2:00 or last climber in to give stragglers the opportunity to complete the course on their own.

10:30 – 1:00 pm: 

KID ZONE:

• Boys & Girls Club Kid Zone (bean-bag toss, hula-hoops, and  more)
• Mammoth Site - Mammoth Science Zone and the 9-hole Mini-golf course will be back; think mammoth ribs for golf clubs)

REGISTRATION DEADLINES:

ONLINE: You can register online through May 28th.

SUNDAY EVENING: You may also register Sunday evening from 5:30 to 6:30 at the white tents across the parking lot from the park,  245 North Garden Street. (Rain back up same address, Scout Center small green building between the Masonic Temple and United Church, across the parking lot from Centennial Park, which is across River Street from City Hall.) or possibly at American Legion.

MONDAY: You may still register Monday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 am, look for the REGISTRATION banner on the white tent, or bad weather backup at green Scout Center or  American Legion

PLEASE HELP US MAKE MONDAY MORNING SMOOTH BY REGISTERING AND/OR PICKING UP YOUR PACKET ON SUNDAY. 

PACKET PICKUP: You can pick up your packet, including your shirt, during the registration times noted above. If you registered after regular registration ended, you will probably not get a tee shirt. There are extras which will be assigned to first registered (online or in person). Every finisher will receive a Finisher's medal.

If you have done this race before, you know we are rather casual. 

Awards: Everyone who finishes earns a delightful hand-made finisher medal. We also award kid-designed awards for 1st place male and female ONLY in each of the three events. No age group awards. While we love a winner and a competition, Stars has always been more about personal challenge—

Honoring America's Fallen Heroes by Having the Courage to Get Strong—in body, mind and spirit.

Timekeeping: We are also rather casual about time keeping. We do have a professional clock, courtesy of our parent organization, Challenge Dakota, and First Interstate Bank Community Foundation, but no professional timekeepers here, just our lovely volunteers. Thus we need your help in doing the best we can to get it right:

• CRITICAL! You must go through the FINISH line CHUTE and YOUR RACE BIB MUST BE PINNED TO THE FRONT OF YOUR BODY!!! IYou are responsible to be sure that YOUR BIB NUMBER IS VISIBLE BEFORE and UNTIL YOU ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF THE CHUTE. If you don't follow these rules you won't just mess up your own time, YOU MIGHT MESS UP EVERYONE'S TIME!

• ALSO CRITICAL: You will be handed a popsicle stick as you go through the chute. It will have a number on it, indicating your placement in the time chain. You MUST BRING THE POPSICLE STICK TO THE CHECKOUT TENT and MAKE SURE THE VOLUNTEERS MATCH your stick number to your bib number BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE TENT. This is also where you pick up your finisher medal.