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Rochester Regional Health Flower City Half Marathon

Traverse the history and beauty of the City of Rochester.  Starting and finishing at the popular Parcel 5 in Downtown Rochester, the half marathon takes in the Susan B Anthony Home & Neighborhood, Downtown, the lavish East Avenue Mansions, the eclectic Park Ave Commerce Neighborhood, Highland Park area, Genesee River Path (East and West Side), University of Rochester Campus back downtown via vistas of the Frederick Douglass/Susan B Anthony Bridge.

We are excited to share we have updated the course to reflect more of the city with the addition of the new start/finish locale. This allows us to feature Parcel 5 among other neighborhoods, sights and sounds of Rochester.

*NEW* - Here is the New 2024 Flower City Challenge Half Marathon Course

     The Half Marathon course will be Certified to be accurate by USATF
Once fully certfied we will update swiftly.  We need better weather to do it.

The start and finish line is on Cortland Street at Parcel 5.


Time Cutoff:

Finish Line CLOSES 3 Hours and 30 Minutes after the start. Athletes can continue to the finish, but times and results will not be recorded and athletes will be self-supported.

Pace Chart to meet the course time cutoff, the max minute/mile pace is 16:19


Half Marathon Aid Stations

  • There are 6 Aid Stations approximately 2ish miles apart.  All Aid Stations will have water. 
    • Please note: Locations TBD
  • Porta-Potties will be located at (Note: these locales are being reviewed with the new course, but they will be on course)
    • Approximately the 5k mark
    • At WS3
    • Just before you cross Mt Hope to McLean (about 8-mile mark)
    • Around mile 9 & 11 by the U of R