GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The 47th annual Bellin Run is coming up; this year there will be an additional course to get more feet on the street.
Linda Maxwell, the assistant race director, says participants in the 2023 run can choose from either the traditional 10K run, or the new 5K run.
“For some people in our community, especially school age children, we feel like that 10K goal may have been a little bit too challenging,” said Maxwell. “By adding the 5K, we are opening it up for more people to be involved.”
Since 1977, the Bellin Run 10K has traversed a little-changed course that starts and ends at Bellin Hospital, winding through the neighborhoods of Green Bay and Allouez. It is one of the largest 10K events in the country. The Bellin Run’s new 5K course will share roughly the first mile with its 10K counterpart before turning down Beaupre Street and rejoining the 10K course on Libal Street for the final approximately 1.5 miles.
Bellin Run participants are supported in their training, with free, weekly training run/walk events beginning March 29. All levels and abilities are welcome for these sessions, which are held at 6 p.m. Wednesdays at Bellin Health Titletown Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, 1970 S. Ridge Road.
Early registration for the Bellin Run’s 10K and 5K events is $30 until April 1 at www.bellinrun.com.
