Directions/MAP

Union High School is located at 1800 Tremont Blvd. on the Northwest side of Grand Rapids.

If you are coming from the airport or Lansing then get off at the Lake Michigan Drive Exit which is the second exit after you pass through downtown and cross over the river. Once on Lake Michigan Drive you will go up a big hill for 3/4's of a mile and then you will come to a traffic light(Covell Street). Turn right(NORTH) onto Covell Street and stay on Covell for two blocks...you will go straight at the 4-way stop and then go down a little hill and see the high school track on the right. Turn right on Tremont Blvd. at the bottom of the hill and turn right into the parking lot by the track. The Big Gym is the Brick building that you'll see on your left when you pull into the parking lot and the registration is through the gym door on the opposite side of the red wall in the parking lot.

The 5K and 10K both start on Tremont Blvd. by the parking lot. Runner descend downhill with the wind at their backs for the first 1 mile and a half. Tremont will dead end into Mt. Mercy where runners will turn left down to Valley Street. Runners will turn right on Valley onto the sidewalk and stay on this until Bridge Street where the will turn right and meet their first challenge. There will be an aid station with water at the top and music to keep runners motivated for their next challenge. After ascending up Bridge the runners will turn right on to Mt. Mercy and descend for the next 1/2 mile down hill only to be send up brutal 4th street and HILL street hills from there the runners can relax and coast back to Union High School and finish in the Gym. 10K runners will run right by the gym on their first loop; go around the school and back onto Tremont Blvd. and make a second chance of the course.

This race is put on by the Union High School Cross Country Team and the Old Fart's Running Club. Proceeds from this race helps out the cross country team and we appreciate you coming to run our race