THEY'RE OFF! 🏃 Gate River Run field of more than 13,000 entrants takes to the streets in the 45th running of the 15K road race. You can watch the race live on Channel 4, News4JAX+ or click this link.
– The biggest road race of the year in the area arrives bright and early Saturday morning.
After two years plagued by COVID-19 precautions, the Gate River Run actually feels like the event of old. And that’s a very good thing. The 45th installment of the iconic race Saturday, which will be televised live on WJXT Channel 4 and streamed onThen, it’s the elite men, followed by four waves of runners who will flood the streets of Downtown Jacksonville and twist through the St. Nicholas and San Marco neighborhoods in an attempt to finish the 15K course.The field is packed with elite runners with Olympic experience. There’s $49,000 in prize money at stake that goes to the top 10 men and women finishers.
Sisson dominated the 2021 River Run and enters this year’s event as a favorite to repeat. Emily Durgin is one of two other Olympians in the women’s field. She finished third in the River Run last year and is coming off an impressive sixth-place finish at the Houston half marathon. The other runner with Olympic experience is Emily Infield, who was a 2016 Olympian.There are streakers, 22 of them who have run in all 44 previous River Runs, and are signed up for this one, too.
As always, questions on if the course record will fall always loom large. Todd Williams set the men’s record in 1995. Shalane Flanagan holds the women’s mark 47 minutes flat in 2014.
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