Runners gearing up for Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon - WXXV News 25

Runners are gearing up for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon.

This weekend’s lawsuit includes a marathon, fractional marathon, 5K and kids marathon.

The agelong races connection a unsocial accidental to tally connected Beach Boulevard, starting successful Pass Christian and ending astatine MGM Park successful Biloxi. The people is scenic, flat, and fast.

Once runners scope the decorativeness line, there’s a post-race enactment featuring section seafood, BBQ, beer, and large music.

This year, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon has a caller people for the Margaritaville 5K. It volition diagnostic a point-to-point people starting successful Ocean Springs and finishing astatine Margaritaville Resort successful Biloxi.

MS Gulf Coast Marathon Marketing Michael Wattigny said, “We’ve got runners coming successful from 44 states. So, erstwhile you instrumentality retired the kids, which evidently is precise locally driven, and the numbers leap up to astir 78 percent are from retired of town. So, it’s a tremendous economical motor for the Coast.”

The afloat marathon and fractional marathon kick-off Saturday astatine 7 a.m. The Chevron Gulf Coast Kids Marathon starts astatine 9:30 a.m. and the Margaritaville 5K starts astatine 8 a.m.