5-Person Marathon Relay

6:30am Sunday, April 25, 2027 — Toledo, Ohio

Running Together is 5x More Fun

Celebrate 50 years of Glass City by sharing the course with friends, family, coworkers, or run club teammates. The North Star BlueScope Relay Marathon allows five runners to complete the marathon course together while experiencing one of the Midwest’s premier running events.

The North Star BlueScope Relay proves that running history is even better when shared. Gather your team, divide the marathon into five exciting legs, and celebrate the 50th running of Glass City together. Whether you’re competing for bragging rights, representing your company, school, family, or running club, the relay is one of the most energetic events of race weekend.

A team of five runners will complete the entire marathon distance. Each runner will run one leg of varying distance handing off a runners belt containing your scoring chip to the next team member at each relay exchange zone.

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RELAY LEG DISTANCES — 3.1 MILES • 5.2 MILES • 6.8 MILES • 5.8 MILES • 5.5 MILES

Distances for relay legs one through five are approximated based on handoff location (front vs. back of exchange zones).

America’s Fastest Hometown Marathon • April 25, 2027

Earn the Bird: Add the Savage 5K to Your Marathon, Half or Relay During Registration to Receive a Bonus Perk in Your Packet.

Premium Perks

  • Event Specific Short-Sleeve Tech Shirt
  • Commemorative Glass City Mug
  • Custom Finisher Medal
  • Chip Timing & Online Results
  • Lunch & Refreshments
  • Custom Awards
  • + More
Team Relay Details

Minimum Age: 9 on race day

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; mile 8 and mile 16. You must maintain approximately a 14:52 pace to complete within the 6.5 hour time limit. You’ll need to be at mile 10 by 9:12am and mile 15 by 11:37am. 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).

Team Categories

* All team members must meet the age criteria to be entered in the Masters Division.

Corporate: Any combination from one corporation
School: Any combination from one school
Family: Any combination from one family (family or relatives)
All Male: All males
All Female: All females
Mixed: Any combination (must have at least 2 female members)

The North Star BlueScope 5-Person Marathon Relay course will begin on Bancroft St. on the University of Toledo campus. It will circle campus before heading West into beautiful Ottawa Hills. Heading north into the quiet neighborhoods of Old Orchard and 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 inside the Glass Bowl.

Put your team of five together and get ready to take on the full 26.2 mile course together. Each member of the team will run one of the legs, while the other four travel from exchange point to exchange point. Our shuttle will take the stress out of getting around the road closures and traffic delays by delivering you within a short distance from where you’ll be meeting your runner on the course.

Teams receive one timing chip that they’ll handoff within the designated relay zone to the subsequent member heading out for the next leg of the race. The atmosphere provides everyone with a little taste of the full marathon route, and allows everyone to show off team spirit and cheering skills. Marathoners and half marathoners can even join a team and double up on their Sunday swag.

Half marathoners can run the 13.1 mile race and either of the first two legs of relay, while marathoner can also run any leg of the relay in conjunction with their 26.2 mile journey. Most runners who double up choose to take on leg one from the start line, but you can decide for yourselves.

Bib Belts & Chip Timing

All team members are required to wear a race number visible on the front of their torso. Your chip timing device will be attached to a runner belt. Only ONE runner belt will be provided to each team. Each runner belt must be turned in at the finish line.