2024 Awards, courtesy of The Running Shop
PRIZE MONEY AND AWARDS
The 8 Miler is part of SAR's Running Shop Mizuno Desert Grand Prix.
Gift Certificate Awards from The Running Shop
8m Run: top three overall male and female: 1, 2, 3- $40, 35, 30. Masters 1st 35.
8m Age Groups, top three male and female: U19 through 80+, in 5-year increments, AG1-$25 gc, AG 2-$20 gc, AG 3-$10 gc
5k Walk/Run, top three overall male and female: 1, 2, 3-$30, $25, $20 gc, Masters 1 $20.
Age Groups: First Place in U10 through 80+ in ten-year increments, $15 gc
Beat Your Age: A long-standing Saguaro tradition is an award of $50 to the male and female who run fastest in minutes and seconds than their age. (For example, if a 60-year-old runs a 57:00 minute 8-mile race and 5-year-old runs 49 minutes, the 60-year-old would win the award.)
Course Records: $250 to fastest man and woman who break the current course records:
Nicholas Hilton 41:33, 2018
Katie James 46:39, 2016
Race Director Challenge (RDC): The first man who breaks race director Randy Accetta's course PR of 42:48 set back in the last century will receive $424.80 in cash on the barrelhead. The first woman who breaks the gender-graded equivalent of 47:48 will receive $474.80 in cash on the barrelhead. (Note, that the men's Course Record is 75 seconds faster than the RDC time, while the women's time is 69 seconds faster, an indication of the accuracy of the calculation using the Mercier Scale.)
Note: age group awards will be awarded based on chip-time beginning at the 6:00 am Open Start
Prize money and overall winner awards will be based on the "gun time" starting at 6:00 am Open Start.
Thanks to Lucas Tyler and the crew at The Running Shop for hosting pre-race packet pickup and for providing all the gift certificates for age group and overall awards.
