Additional Information
Performance Jetty-2-Jetty Ultra & Team Relay is designed as a self-supported event with minimal aid provided by the race organizers -- it is more like an adventure run than your ordinary 5K road race. Participants are encouraged to have a crew of family or friends who provide fluids and food at locations of their choice along the course. Your crew can meet you almost anywhere along the coast. Your own relay teammates could also act as your team's support crew when not running. The entire race is held on the beach as the tide provides an ever-widening, flat smooth surface for running and biking. Participants are not allowed to leave the beach to travel on roads -- the official race course is all on the beautiful beaches of Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach, Guana River State Park, and Vilano Beach. ALL participants need to register in order to take part in the race or relay -- and must pre-register to be awarded a FINISHER'S T-SHIRT.
Charity Challenge:
Starting in 2008, Performance Jetty-2-Jetty Ultra & Team Relay is a fundraising event for the Katie Caples Foundation (a 501c(3) charity), which presents the Katie Ride for Life Bike Tour. You and your team are invited to take part in our race, and your additional donations will go to the Katie Caples Foundation, to help fund educational programs about organ and tissue donation. You and your team can win additional prizes for being the team that raises the highest dollar amount in donations (of course, they can include your own contributions). When checking in at the Pre-Race Meeting, be sure to notify our race officials at the check-in that you are also taking on the Charity Challenge. As a special alternative, you can designate where you prefer for your donations to go -- funds will be distributed by our Charity Challenge to your selected charities, whether cancer, heart, multiple sclerosis, animal rights, leukemia, children, domestic violence, or other causes. Of course, you can make donations to your team's total to increase your chances of being the "Highest-Total Team."
Pre-Race Meeting:
The participants' Pre-Race Meeting will begin at 7:00PM, the evening before the race, at the host hotel (see the Jetty-2 Jetty Updates page for details). All participants (or a Team representative) should be sure to attend the meeting to receive details about the start, mileage/access charts, maps, and the safety briefing.
Race-day Check-in:
Racers will meet to check in with Race Officials on race morning 30-45 minutes prior to the start time, at the location announced at the Pre-Race Meeting on the evening prior to the Race. Participants will then proceed as a group to the start. Be sure to check the Jetty-2-Jetty Updates page for late changes in our plans.
