Mercy Health Glass City Marathon — Course Open 6.5 Hours
26.2 • Marathon Event Details
6:30am Sunday, April 27, 2025
Wheeler Start Time: 6:30am
CELEBRATING WITH MERCY HEALTH AS TITLE SPONSOR
“Mercy Health has had a longstanding commitment to the health and wellbeing of our community and this partnership with the Toledo Road Runners Club (TRRC) and our involvement in the Mercy Health Glass City Marathon exemplifies this promise. We are excited to announce that Mercy Health has officially signed on to continue our sponsorship of the marathon into 2025 and beyond, ensuring that our medical teams and running specialists are there to help all runners get ready for this challenge and remain safe while accomplishing their goals.”
The Mercy Health Glass City Marathon (GCM) course will begin on Bancroft St. near the University of Toledo North Tower. It will circle campus past Ottawa Park before continuing West into beautiful Ottawa Hills. Heading north into the quiet neighborhood of Ottawa Hills, the course leads you to the area’s finest Metroparks system utilizing the University Parks bike Trail. A tour through Sylvania leads you back to Wildwood Metropark and down the bike trail to a short tour of the UT campus, concluding with the finish on the field inside the Glass Bowl stadium. This course has little elevation changes, smooth paved roads, and annually posts top 25 in the USA race times and a memorable experience for everyone running.
Mercy Health Glass City Marathon is a USA Track & Field Sanctioned Event — Allowing for Olympic Trials Qualification
Course Open: 6.5 Hours *Time Limit Strictly Enforced by Local Police — SAG vehicles will be present should you be unable to meet cutoff times. There are two checkpoints along the course and you must maintain approximately a 15 minute per mile pace to complete within the 6.5 hour time limit. You will not be allowed to continue if you do not make the checkpoints in time, SAG vehicles will travel at the course closing pace and will pick up runners along the route and at aid stations, who choose to discontinue the race or fall behind pace (under none medical circumstances).
Mercy Health Glass City Marathon • Block Pricing
The low-low rates you’ve come to expect from the Mercy Health Glass City Marathon remain the same as last year. The earlier you signup to Run Glass City, the better pricing will be available. Tiered/block are in place for this year’s running. Tier/block pricing rewards the earliest registrants with the best rates possible, while maintaining our extremely competitive pricing throughout the year. All events have been setup with total registrant caps on each block. Once each block sells out, subsequent tier/block prices activate automatically until the event sells out completely.
RUNNER PACKAGE INCLUDES
Premium Perks
- Custom Apparel (jacket thru 12/15, tech shirt after)
- Pacing Service for Marathoners
- Commemorative Glass City Mug
- Custom Finisher Medal
- Chip Timing & Online Results
- Lunch & Refreshments
- Custom Awards
- + More
Virtual Perks
- Custom Event Apparel (same as for in-person)
- Finisher Medal
- Custom BIB
- Packet Shipping Included
- Online Results
- Online Photo Submission Access
Maximum Field: 1,800 Runners
Minimum Age: 16 on Race Day
USATF Certification #OH22014DH
IN-PERSON MARATHON
TIER | PRICE | REGISTRANTS |
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Tier 2 | $95 | 251 to 750 |
Tier 3 | $110 | 751 to 1,250 |
Tier 4 | $125 | 1,251+ |
VIRTUAL MARATHON
TIER | PRICE | REGISTRANTS |
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Tier 1 | $85 | Limited by Overall Field Size |