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Mission Statement

Fifty States HALF Marathon Club™ was established to provide a social network and
group for runners that have a passion for running half marathons.

Additionally, our running club maintains a free half marathon calendar for the USA.

We welcome all Runners in our national running club.

Thank you!

Founder & President Nicole Blomgren, MBA

USATF MEMBER & USATF CERTIFIED OFFICIAL

Over 20 Years in the Running Community

Nicole Blomgren

General Half Marathon Running Club Membership Information

Our challenges provide a mixture of distances to allow half marathons, marathons, half ironman triathlons, and full ironman triathlons to be included in at least one of each of our challenges. This allows runners to mix it up if they choose, and/or still finish a 50 states challenge if they progress to become a marathoner, or cut back to half marathons, an enjoyable distance to run and travel. Additionally, feel free to join our running club as a "General Half Marathon Club Member" just for the discounts and perks! That's right! We are a national Half Marathon Club also open to all you half marathoners out there that know you will never run in all 50 States, but want to be part of the Half Marathon running community and enjoy the discounts (over 150!) and camaraderie of other half marathon club members, interact in our private member only groups, join our annual meet-ups, etc. Running in the USA continues to grow as a popular sport and activity and we all love Half Marathons, so join in!

RUNNING CLUB MEMBERSHIP PERKS:

RACE EVENT DISCOUNTS

Currently we have OVER 150 Half Marathon and other distance event discounts and growing, such as the Rock 'n' Roll Series of Races across the US, the IO Event Series across AZ, CA, NV, Charlie Alewine events in California, Hollywood Half Marathons in FL & CA and many more! The discounts alone pay for your annual dues!

MEMBER GROUP MEET UPS

We have an annual member meet-up and awards held at a new location annually, which is voted on by the members, and also many, many, smaller group meet-ups planned in our forum by members. Our online private members only Facebook Forum "Group" has become our home of most members coordinating meet-ups, sharing their schedules, pictures and more. Great camaraderie to tackle your challenge together!

PESRSONALIZED - ENGRAVED FINISHER GOLD CUP TROPHY FOR BOTH CHALLENGES

Think about it! Membership is only the price of a half marathon and we award nice gold cup trophies on a wood base! * Nicest Awards in the Industry* and, you can earn more than one at no extra cost or fee!!

ANNUAL SOCIAL & AWARD EVENT

As mentioned above, our annual meet-up and awards is held at a new location every year, where all members are invited to meet-up. This is a fun event to allow all members to meet in person from all over the US! Many members get to know one another in our private forum, and it is exciting to get everyone together in person, and always a great time!

DISCOUNTS

In addition to our many event discounts such as half marthons and marathons across the US, we also have discount deals for members on items such as 20% Off ROAD ID, Big Discount on Nutrition evaluation or monthly nutrition plans with our Endurance Nutritionist Coach partner Apex Nutrition LLC, Footmatters.com and many more to be added soon.

MEMBER FORUM

While we started out having our member forum in our logged in member forum, our private members only Facebook Forum "Group" has grown to be the most popular, which included interaction with about 80% of our members, and has been an awesome medium for fueling the camaraderie throughout our club!

MEMBERS ONLY AREA

In our logged in area of our member online community, you can find important club information, a list of discount codes sorted by state and type of discount, and view profiles of each member of our club.

.... AND MORE TO COME IN THE FUTURE!

Membership

You do NOT have to participate in the above "Challenges" to be a Fifty States HALF Marathon Club™ Member and enjoy the camaraderie and over 150 discounts. Also ALL Club members are eligible for BOTH awards! NO MINIMUMS to join! We even have members that finished their FIRST Half Marathon as an official member!

YES, some of your past half marathon completions (or other events mentioned) WILL COUNT toward your challenge. Please see "Rules & Guidelines" tab.

Halfmarathonsearch.com Calendar 2013

Halfmarthonsearch.com is a free public simplistic half marathon schedule for runners, which also includes a (T) next to trail running half marathon events to support the trail running community as well. The calendar has both running races and walking friendly events. The half marathon race calendar is maintained complimentary to the running community by Fifty States Half Marathon Club and verified & managed by USATF Certified Official Nicole Blomgren.

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Half Marathon Community & Resources for Half Marathons

50 States HALF Marathon Challenge™

Take on the 50 States Half Marathon Challenge™ (the original challenge our club was founded on) and finish a HALF marathon in all 50 States (plus DC optional) in the USA.

50 States Endurance Challenge™

Take on the 50 States Endurance Challenge™ and finish a half marathon, full marathon, 70.3 HALF Iron distance triathlon, or full Ironman triathlon, or combination, in all 50 states (plus DC optional) in the USA! We WILL ACCEPT Full Marathons and Ironman distance completions to count toward a State for this challenge.