Last Updated May 12, 2008.

Training Kickoff Party - June 14th. It is time to get ready for the 2008 Route 66 Marathon! The 2008 Route 66 Marathon Training Kickoff Party is June 14th at The Downtown Doubletree Hotel. If you are new to running this is the place to learn how to train for any of our events. New Balance, Fleet Feet Tulsa and Tulsa Runner will be at the Expo with advice and information on local training programs that can help you finish your first Quarter, Half or Full Marathon!

Online registration is now active for Tulsa's most historic race, the Aduddell 5 Mile Race. Not only is this Tulsa's oldest race, going into it's 39th year, it is the first of it's kind to offer $100 in prize money to the first participant to break any of the age group records. Click here if you would like to see what the times are for the all the age group records. Do ya think you are fast enough for a crack at $100? This will be an out and back course starting at the parking lot at 69th and Riverside Drive. The prize money promises to bring out some pretty elite runners as well as walkers and and folks who just want to have a good jog and support this wonderful race.

This race is very inexpensive to start with at only $15, but if you are a Tulsa Running Club Member you save an additional $5. For only $10, how can you miss out on all the excitement that this race promises to offer? Click here to register online.

Here is a little blurb about the legend that the race was named for....Larry Aduddell, the Guru. If anyone at the time of the birth of Tulsa Run possessed all the knowledge in running and racing in Oklahoma, it was Larry. Perhaps this holds true even today. While serving in Viet Nam, Larry was one of the few with a desk job. He has the record of having run 180 days in a row while serving there. At the large base where he was stationed, he made a course to run on. He arrived in Tulsa in June 1969 and running has not been the same since his arrival. He won the first open race in Tulsa, the Riverside 5 Miler, which now bears his name: Larry Aduddell Run. He soon became an institution as well as the envy of the running circles. Legend has it that he would arrive at the race course, which he had measured with a 100 foot steel tape with only a few inch errors per mile, and would begin to erect start and finish line banners, finishing chutes, clock, and water stops. He would then instruct the volunteers, shoot the starting gun, run the race, and finish first, sometimes by many yards. He would then change roles, become the race director again, conduct the finish order and results, hand out the trophies, tear down the implements and have a beer or two. This routine lasted many years. He was installed as Tulsa Run's first Race Director and a national search would not have produced a better director. Larry served at this position at least 5 years. One of the forgotten but intriguing aspects of the Race, was conducting a mock race for officials, volunteers, and some participants the week before the official race date. The times were entered into official race results to honor their contributions.