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  Run or walk with your dogs!  S ign up today!  run4rescues.georgiaspca.or g Strut your Mutt at the Georgia SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) 4th Annual Run for the Rescues 5K, Fun Run and Festival. This event will take place in the beautiful Suwanee Town Center Park in the Heart of Suwanee. We encourage everyone to bring their dogs for this run to benefit homeless pets. Come see B98.5FM's Jordan Graye. She will be doing live remotes at the event.  In addition to the race, there will be a Festival at the Suwanee Town Center from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Enjoy food and beverage, arts and crafts, inflatables for the kids and treats for dogs, cats and runners alike. Vendors of all kinds will have samples and products for sale. Smart Critters   will be doing frisbee demonstrations, training demonstrations and CSC testing at their booth location. In addition, the Georgia SPCA will hold pet contests on the main stage at 12:0...

Don a bonnet and race through Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery in a one-of-a-kind event that’s a heck of a lot of fun Lace up your running shoes – oh, and don’t forget to don your favorite fun costume – in preparation to Run Like Hell or Run Like Heck through Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery, April 12, in the one-of-a-kind family-fun event, Run Like Hell: Pushing Up Daisies Edition, presented by the Historic Oakland Cemetery Foundation. New this year – the beloved race has moved from fall to spring and is now an electronically-chipped Peachtree Road Race qualifier! There’s no better time to feast the eyes on the rolling hills of Oakland’s verdant green paths and soak up the spring blooms of Oakland’s and neighboring Grant Park’s magnificent gardens than during a spring jaunt through one of Atlanta’s most sacred grounds.

Atlanta can expect more than 16,000 runners to hit the streets for the eighth annual Publix Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon, produced and presented by  Life Time, The Healthy Way of Life Company  (NYSE: LTM), on Sunday, March 23, 2014, at 7 a.m. The race course will travel through metro Atlanta’s most interesting and historic areas including the Sweet Auburn District, Inman Park, Decatur, Druid Hills, Virginia-Highland and Midtown.  Along the way, runners will pass landmarks including the King Historic Site, Carter Center, four college campuses and Piedmont Park. 

RUN FOR A REASON - HELP HOMELESS PETS Strut your Mutt at the Georgia SPCA 4th Annual Run for the Rescues 5K, Fun Run and Festival . This event will take place in the beautiful Suwanee Town Center Park in the heart of Suwanee. We encourage everyone to bring their dogs for this run to benefit homeless pets. Come see B98.5FM's Jordan Graye. She will be doing live remotes at the event. In addition to the race, there will be a Festival at the Suwanee Town Center from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm . Enjoy food and beverage, arts and crafts, inflatables for the kids and treats for dogs, cats and runners alike. Vendors of all kinds will have samples and products for sale.

  The Allstate Life Insurance ℠ Atlanta 13.1 Marathon® and Hyundai Hope on Wheels 5K events will take place on Sunday, October 6, 2013, beginning at 7 a.m.  The race will start and finish at Town Brookhaven, 4330 Peachtree Rd, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319.   The course encompasses Town Brookhaven in Atlanta's Brookhaven community, situated on Peachtree Road, north of Lenox Square Mall and Phipps Plaza, and borders the historic Oglethorpe University.    You can downland the "Bibs" app for real time results. No more standing around waiting for your race results to be announced hours after a race event... with the bibs app, you get your race results as soon as the race is over AND they're right in your pocket! The bibs app is designed to place the results timed athletic events directly in the hands of event participants (and spectators!) shortly after the race. Currently, bibs is free to athletes, spectators, race timing companies, and race ...