Monster Dash - 2015 - 5th Year Anniversary

BEWARE - MONSTERS Coming to the NCM Motorsports Park for the 2015 Monster Dash!

We are excited to announce the 2015 Joseph's Hope Foundation  Monster Dash.  We'll be making our 5ht year aniversary race the best ever. 

• We'll be running our second year a the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park.  We have worked the traffice details out and the isseus from last year will be a thing of the past. 
  

• An anniversary race should mean lots of great door prizes, correct?  Well, with the Monster Dash 2015 it definitely does. 

• Beginning with the 2015 race, we will be offering a bag check station.

• Not necessarily new this year, but something I don't think many have been aware of in the past is our early-bird registration doorprize drawings.  We will have several different early-bird doorprize registration deadlines.  Each will enable those registered by the specific deadlines to be entered for special doorprize drawings (gift cards to Nat's Outdoor Sports, Trax Running, etc.).  Entering by the first early-bird deadline enters you into all of the early-bird drawings, so enter early and get your chance at one of the great early-bird prizes.
  

There are over 147 million orphans world wide.  That's the reason for the Monster Dash 5K.  Proceeds from the race will be used for orphan care (through providing adoption support/financial assistance and meeting needs of domestic and interntional orphanages). 

This is a night run/walk.  Who'd want anything else for Halloween, right? 

The first component will feature a 10K run or a 5K run/walk around the course at the new NCM Motorsports Park track.   Spooky, huh? It should be, it's Halloween!  For your safety, on the back poriton of the course, your path will be lit by luminaries in remembrance of those who dared to brave the Monster Dash but were never seen or heard from again!  In all seriousnes though, the darker,  back portion of the course will indeed be lit by hundreds of glowing luminaries and there will be safety tents spread throughout the course.

The second component is the Monster Crawl, a kid's obstacle race, that will be sponsored and hosted by Vette City CrossFit.  Parents, no need to worry about your kids getting their costumes ruined or muddy, this is not a mud obstacle course.  There will be fitness related challenges appropriate for children 10 and under.

The third component is a fun trick-or-treat style walk.  (what's more fun than getting candy while you walk)?  This is intended for families to come out and have a fun, but safe night.  There will be trick-or-treat stations set up an manned by volunteer groups. 

Remember, this is a Monster Dash, so what will you be?  (costumes are welcome and encouraged, but please make sure they are appropriate to wear around children. After all, children are the main beneficiaries of our event).

The Monster Dash is Coming.  Are you ready?

ORDER OF EVENTS

The Kid's Monster Crawl Obstacle Race will start at 6:30PM and will be run in heats of varying ages (i.e, 4-5 year olds will run together, 6&7 year olds together, 8,9 & 10 year olds together, etc.).  This race shoudl take approximately 15-20 minutes.  

The Monster Dash 5K and 10K will start promptly after the completion of the kid's obstacle race.  This should start around 7:00PM. 

The Trick-or-Treat fun walk will be ongoing throughout the evening.  We will begin this piece around 6:00 for families that are participating in this event and the 5K/10K.  This will enable those families to complete the trick-or-trail fun walk with their children and be ready for the start of the 5K/10K.  This will also continue until after the 5K event is finished to ensure everyone has a chance to participate in this fun trick-or-treat mile walk.

Pre-registration is encouraged by October 10, 2015.  This will help us ensure we have the proper quantity and sizes of Monster Dash tech shirts available for race day.  Regiatrations after that date will also receive the shirt, but they may have to be fulfilled after the event..  On-line registrations must be complete by Thursday, October 22, 2014. 

Sign-in and on-site registration will begin at 4:30PM on race day at the NCM Motorsports Park. Due to a massive number of late registrations and issues with getting the registration information imported into the timing system, we will be closing on-site registration at precisely 6PM on the evening of the race.  Additionally, walk-up registration fees will be $30 for the 5K and $40 for the 10K.  The fees for the Monster Crawl and fin walk will not increase for walk-up registrations on race day.

There will be a party and packet pick-up event on Friday, October 23 beginning at 4:30 PM.  This will be held at the University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center (on the convention center side).   I twill be improtant for everyon that can to come and pick up their race packets at the pick-up event.  There will be representatives from the NCM MOtorsports park that will have a waiver for you to sign and a wristband for everyone that will enable you to drive throught he checkpoint without having to wait in a line to signe their waiver on site.  Anyone that does not come to packet pick-up will have to park in the lot on the south end of the race track and sign their waiver before heading back to the main parking area.  This is not our rule, this is something that their insurance broker and legal team require, but they have worked well with us to form a plan of action to prevent the traffic jam and back up that occurred last year while participants were signing their NCM waivers.  More information on this will be broadcast and sent out as the even approaches.