Staged in front of the Children’s Museum, with music and other festivities, plus our standard route through Armory Park and other historic neighborhoods.

Tucson’s premier running party is a great way to kick start the summer!

Adults

• Free beer for 21+ from Pueblo Vida Brewing

• After-parties, with post-race discounts to Pueblo Vida

• Great summer party in dynamic Downtown Tucson

• Prize money for Open Mile and TMC 5k Night Run

• TMC 5k Night Run is part of SAR’s Running Shop Grand Prix, with Age Group Awards, courtesy of Running Shop

Children, Youth, and Families

• Free SAR FitKids Mile for children 12-and-under

• Free High School Mile for all junior high and all high school students with 250 gift cards given out to children and youth

• Free entry to Children’s Museum

Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown and more

• This is the first-race of the three-race Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown.  

• Beneficiaries: Help us raise funds for local charities — use the “Donate” button to provide funds to the charity of your choice.  This year, we are raising funds for education and youth, so please help us support the Children’s Museum,  Greater Tucson Leadership, and the BEYOND-Tucson Foundation.

• See more details on Tucson area races at our friends at the Southern Arizona Roadrunners: https://runsar.org/

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Wanna’ join in the fun but don’t want to run?  Volunteers are always needed — sign up here!

Click here for the Visit Tucson calendar listing.

Thursday, May 28, Registration and Packet Pickup

and

Friday, May 29, Registration and Packet Pickup

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, at The Running Shop, 3055 North Campbell Ave

• You can pick up your souvenir items in person Thursday, first come, first served basis.
• In person registration is available, online, cash or check.
• It will probably be more crowded than the photo above, but you get the idea . . .

Tent Outside: Numbers for all races + GZTC goodies

• 5k and GZTC: At the tent outside you will pick up your 5k race number and the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown shirt and medal. Those 21+ can use this number for the Beer Garden.
• Milers: Open and HS Milers can pick up the chip-timed RRCA Championship Race Bib Number outside. 21+ can use this at the Beer Garden
• FitKidz and FitKidz Parents: You can pick up the chip-timed FitKidz bib numbers for the child outside. Parents do not get a race number and will be untimed.
• Everyone: pick up the four safety pins to pin your number on the front of the shirt you will wear during the race.
• Souvenir Add-On Hats: If you ordered a hat, we will have it for you at the tent, too.

Inside: After you get your number, you’ll go inside the Running Shop, to pick up your TMC 5k Night Run Shirt. (The shirt volunteers will not have check-in information, so please tell them the shirt size that you ordered.)

Shopping: The Running Shop will have sale items

Friday: Balega and The Running Shop will offer a 2-4-1 sock sale on Friday evening!

Saturday, May 30, Race Night Schedule

Race Location, Parking, Race Maps: If you haven’t heard, Armory Park is closed for renovations, so we’ve had to change the race staging area a bit from the way we’ve done things in recent years. Below you can find a map of the planned race night staging activities and a map of Downtown parking.

• Registration and packet pickup will be on the grass along the north side of the Children’s Museum.
• The bathrooms will be against the walls on the south side of the Children’s Museum.
• The beer garden will be on the left as you face the Children’s Museum.

5:00 – 6:30 Registration and Packet Pickup, 200 South Sixth Avenue

In person registration is available, online, cash or check.

Registration will be on the lawn on the north side of the Children’s Museum building, basically at 12th Street just west of Sixth Avenue. Everyone will check in and get a number at the Run Tucson tents. Then they will continue down the chute to get a 5k race shirt and/or GZTC goodies.

FitKidz and SAR will have a tent, so you can go directly to the FitKidz tent to get the registered FitKidz stuff.

Ongoing Vendor Expo: with all sorts of great giveaways and activities from Padel Alley, ProActive Physical Therapy, Natural Grocers, Raising Cane’s, ICCU, HOKA, The Running Shop, Renewal by Andersen, El Tour de Tucson, SAR, and more.

Pueblo Vida Beer Garden: for 21+ Free pour with your race number, $5 additional pours. Bring ID if you’re even close.

6:00 pm Start Open Mile Race, the RRCA West Regional Championship

6:00 pm Start Running Shop High School Mile by HOKA

6:30 pm Start SAR FitKidz Mile Check in at the FitKidz tent near the Children’s Museum will begin at 5:00 pm

• Raising Cane’s gift card for all and SAR FitKidz goodies for all

7:00 pm Start TMC 5k Run/Walk — for all ages, all abilities, all bodies, with prize money and age group awards.

8:30 or so Awards. See Awards details here.

Post-Race at Pueblo Vida

Thanks to Pueblo Vida for providing the beer for the Beer Garden — be sure to stop by their Brewing Company at 115 East Broadway.

Post-race through June. Shirts and medals of registrants who cannot make race weekend will be available at The Running Shop, 3055 North Campbell through the end of June. T-shirt sizing first come, first served. We will donate all remaining souvenirs on July 1st, so please be sure to pick up your items or send someone to pick them up before July 1st.

We’re super grateful to Lucas Tyler and the whole crew at The Running Shop for all the help with this event.

2024 Results: follow links here

2023 Race Results here and here

2022 Race Results Here

2021 Race Results Here

All race results since 2007 can be found at our friends https://runsar.org/events/tmc-meet-me-downtown-5k-night-run-and-festival-of-miles/

Randy Accetta: randy@runtucson.net