How much fun was that???!!!

Randy here, with a quick note to thank all 988 of you for being part of the 2nd Annual El Tour de Tucson 5k!

Below please find a few snapshot photos, plus information on 5k results and awards and a "thank you" to the volunteers and crew who worked so hard to make this event happen.

It was a joy to ride around the course and meet new folks and see so many old friends -- thanks for all the smiles, waves, and high-fives -- I hope you all had as good a time yesterday as I did!

We'll let you know when more official photos are available, but a handful of snapshots from the course can be found on the race page here. If you want to share any photos, please share at the Run Tucson FB page here.

For social media, please tag @eltourdetucson and @runtucson -- you can use hashtags #ElTour5k, #ElTourdeTucson5k, #ElTourRun and #runtucson and anything else you want . . .

We'll send another race report later this week with updates amd discount codes to future Run Tucson events.

In the meantime, we hope that you have a safe, happy, and healthy Thanksgiving Week, wherever your travels take you.

Randy Accetta, on behalf of Tia and the crew at Run Tucson

randy@runtucson.net | tia@runtucson.net

RESULTS

Click here for the race results from the 2024 5k.  Thanks to On Your Left for putting together results that can be viewed by age group, sex, and participant search. 

If you have questions about the results, please contact race director Randy Accetta at randy@runtucson.net.

ABOUT YOU, BY THE NUMBERS:

988: registrations, a world record for the El Tour 5k

823: QJH the last official finisher

411 and 412: the middle of the pack finish place for Manny and Patricia

85: Oldest female finisher -- well done Yolanda!

87: Oldest male finisher -- well done Joseph!

31: total number of states and nations, in order of # of registrants, you came from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, MEXICO, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, CANADA, Alabama, Connecticut, Washington DC, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

1: bewigged Viking helmet race photographer

1: sweatshirt with a great message on the back

AWARDS

If you were top three in your age group or top three overall and did NOT get your Fleet Feet gift card from Jeff at the awards ceremony, you can pick up your Fleet Feet gift card at Fleet Feet (7301 East Tanque Verde Road, #151).

• The deadline to pick up your gift card is December 31, 2024.
• Please have the results available on your phone or printed out to show your placing.
• Click here for more information on Fleet Feet locations and contact information.

Special thanks to the 18 million people who helped produce this event:

• The folks at El Tour are awesome. We are grateful to TJ Juskiewicz for inviting Run Tucson to do the 5k with El Tour. Special thanks for operations leadership by Jessica Escobedo Davis, her dad Tim Escobedo, and her nephew Angel.

Thanks to:

• AAA Arizona for handing out oranges and bananas and all the loud cheering and enthusiasm at the finish line -- special thanks to a few of the AAA folks for helping cheer runners around the finish line turn.

• The youth fitness program GroGirlGro for handing out medals at the finish line! (Special appreciation to their founder, Jody Bartz, for letting me borrow her cool purple helmet -- I had left my bike helmet in the garage and she made sure I was safe out on the course...)

• Clint and Angela at Starlight Deejays for everything -- music, arch raising, banner hanging, humor and more!

• Noemi and Craig at the turn-around on the bike path.

• Mandy and Joshlyn and Beth and Dave for sending runners, walkers, and bike riders in the correct directions, with such good cheer!

• Dominica and the crew from Team Red White and Blue (pictured above) for helping set-up and managing the water station at the finish line.

• Agata, Israel, Devesh and Kim for helping with set up, break down, and water stop management!

• Eric and the folks at the Arizona Bowl for all the good cheer surrounding the giant football helmet.

• Fleet Feet for the awards and to Jeff for helping at the awards ceremony

• Jeannette and Raising Cane's for being such fun sponsors of the finish line!

• Ben Bridge Jewelery for the top finisher awards

• Children's Clinic and Supercool Baloons for helping us have such a fun finish line, along with

• The students from the UA Society for Neuroscience for managing the 1.5 mile water stop.

• El Grupo Youth Cycling for leading the Fun Ride on the course so safely

• Mountain View High School and all the other volunteers for all the packet pickup volunteer help at the Expo.

John Ward was our go-to course manager -- John has been doing behind-the-scenes ops work at all of our Run Tucson races since Saguaro -- it's great to have him on board!

Tia Accetta was at a high school cross country meet in Phoenix on race day and couldn't make it, but she was instrumental in putting all this together -- special thanks to her for all the pre- and post-race support!

I'm sure others jumped in and helped, so if I'm missing anyone, please forgive me and let me know who I missed!