WELCOME TO RACEKIDS MERCEDES MARATHON!
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Event Date: February 14
RaceKids Race Day Program Location: Sheraton Birmingham, 2101 Richard Arrington Junior Boulevard North, Birmingham, AL 35203
The Sheraton Birmingham is the Host Hotel for this event. It’s located just a few blocks from the Start/Finish and the post race party!
REGISTRATION FEES:
MARATHON
Eight Hour structured day camp. Full Supervision. All the benefits and amenities of the Half Marathon camp with two additional hours of activities. For your convenience, the program opens at 5am, two hours before race start. Children enrolled in this camp will enjoy fun games and activities, a special guest speaker, a craft to take home to remember their day, and enjoy breakfast and a full sit-down lunch.
- $89 (Now through November 30)
- $99 (December 1 through January 14)
- $109 (January 15 through Race Weekend)
RaceKids offers a limited space for Marathon/Marathon Relay day camp registrations. Registration may reach capacity before Race Weekend. Register today!
REGISTRATION FEES:
HALF MARATHON
Six Hour structured day camp. Full Supervision. Half Marathon camp includes a day filled with fun and activities, a special guest speaker, create amazing crafts to take home to remember their day, and will enjoy breakfast and a full sit down-lunch. For your convenience, the program opens 90 minutes before race start.
- $69 (Now through November 30)
- $79 (Dec 1 through January 14)
- $89 (January 15 through Race Weekend)
RaceKids offers a limited space for Half Marathon/Half Marathon Relay day camp registrations. Registration may reach capacity before Race Weekend. Register Today!
COST BREAKDOWN
There are 2 factors that we refused to negotiate, which creates the current price point for RaceKids: SAFETY & CONVENIENCE.
SAFETY
RaceKids ensures each day camp employee is fully certified. Each employee must also pass a background check, and each employee must have experience. RaceKids is located in a conference room of a premium Headquarter Hotel. This ensures your child is in a safe facility, with all the amenities required for a safe day camp experience.
Your child’s safety is our number one concern.
CONVENIENCE
Being located in a Headquarter Hotel means you’re almost always under a mile from the start line, and if you’re staying at that hotel, your child doesn’t even need to go outside in order to get to us. With this convenience comes the limitation of what we can offer for food and snacks. For safety reasons, the HQ Hotel will only allow RaceKids to serve food from their menu, meaning both breakfast and continental snack bar (and lunch as well if your child is in the full marathon camp) are served at a quality and price in which they operate as a whole.
It is impossible to staff RaceKids based on estimated finish time. Weather and injuries and other factors play a huge role in when you’ll be able to return to pick up your child. For this reason, we created a full morning experience for your child. They have an action packed morning planned with many activities. If you’re done the race and our camp is still running, please feel free to take time to relax, shower, eat, and enjoy the rest of your morning until pickup time.
“We are committed to providing a safe, convenient, and fun day for your child(ren). We have taken every precaution, and eliminated every roadblock so you can have a smooth transition on race morning and fully enjoy your run.”
~ Brandy Vaillancourt, Co-Founder, RaceKids.