The growth of this race has led to some growing pains over the years. After our 2015 race, our city’s safety officers as well as the neighborhoods where we start and finish asked us to come up with some ideas to minimize the impact on those areas. To address that, we changed the way runner transportation worked for 2016. The ... More

Vermont’s Premier Running Challenge Series – Hit All the Classic Distances in One Year!  Start it off with:  Half Marathon Unplugged, presented by Switchback Brewing Co. – 13.1 miles of scenic bike path running on a flat, fast course and for 2020 we’re featuring a new out and back plus loop course, start and finish in Burlington’s Waterfront Park, same great post-race ... More

Our RunVermont Grand Prix Quest Blogger Denise is at it again!I realized it this past weekend on a road trip.  I was brought back to the nostalgia of my college days on the long bus rides to soccer games (full disclosure, I was the goal keeper...there's irony for you, goalies don't run!!).  I was on a bus full of runners ... More

After this past Saturday, I can say that I am halfway through the Grand Prix! Well, OK, 2 out of 4 finish lines have been crossed, but really it is 16.2 miles down and 32.4 to go.(for the math wizards, that's 33% completed)Unplugged is a great event! It's a nice course though neighborhoods and along the bike path with it's ... More

Registration is now open for the 14th annual Half Marathon Unplugged presented by Switchback Brewing. Mark your calendar for Saturday April 11, 2020, click the registration link, make that commitment to yourself that 2020 is your biggest year of training and racing yet and that all your pr’s better watch out because here you come!  On the operations side, after 8 years with start ... More

A slight drizzle and brisk 30-degree April air could not move the runners of RunVermont’s Half Marathon Unplugged out of their deep focus. One could see the nerves and anxiety slowly subside as Director of Race Operations, Joe Connelly, called the 638 runners up to the starting line. The ensemble of half-marathoners moved as one—with their family and friends getting ... More

During a long group run in December a conversation emerged about the different opportunities to run two half-marathons in one weekend.  I never have attempted that feat, but it has been an item on my runner's bucket list.  I thought the best local opportunity would be GMAA's Rollin Irish Half Marathon & Plattsburgh Half Marathon (Saturday-Sunday) in late April, but ... More

Race Transfer and Deferral Policy A participant may transfer his/her registration from one race to another by using the registration fee paid for one race as a credit toward a future race. This policy applies to the following four RunVermont races: Half Marathon Unplugged, Pine Street Mile, Island Vines 10K,  and Resolution Run This policy DOES NOT apply to the Vermont City Marathon ... More