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22nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day 8K

Join us in Washington, DC as we officially open the spring racing season with the St. Patrick's Day 8K.

The 22nd edition of this classic event will be held on Sunday, March 14, 2009 at 9:00 am. The race starts and finishes on Pennsylvania Avenue between 12^th and 13^th Streets, NW.

Register online now. The entry fee is $25 though December 31, 2009, becomes $30 until race weekend, and increases to $35 March 12-14. On-site registration and packet pick-up will be held at the Old Post Office Pavilion, located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 12^th Street, on Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. On race day, registration and packet pick-up will be held in a tent on Pennsylvania Avenue next to Freedom Plaza.

The race features a flat course, fast competition, bagpipers on the course, runners in costume, and a good time for all!

After the race, the festivities take place at Freedom Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue between 13^th and 14^th Streets, NW), and include an exhibition of Irish dancing by the O'Neill-James School of Irish Dancing, and the awards ceremony. New this year, the DC Gaels, an Irish sports team, will demonstrate Irish sports such as Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie.

The race features Capital Running Company's signature awards structure: ten deep overall and three deep in five-year age groups from 19 & under to 80 & above. In addition to prizes for the fastest runners, many random prizes will be awarded, including six Garmin Forerunners, gift certificates to local running stores such as Fleet Feet of Adams Morgan, restaurants, and Irish pubs.

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The course will be the same 8K course that has been used since the race became an 8K in 2006. Capital Running Company will continue to work with the DC government to improve the course for future years.

If you prefer to register by mail or fax, print this entry form and send it to Capital Running Company. For full information about the event, see the race Web site.

See the Photo Gallery of the 2009 race.

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