the overGRound marathon/relay
- Date Sun 26th October 2025
- Time 7:00AM EDT
- Location Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Price Free
- Races 3 races
- Distances Marathon
Just added
Secure your place early
Event summary
Join us for the vibrant overGRound Marathon and Relay on Sunday, October 26, 2025, in the heart of Grand Rapids, Kent! This inclusive, free event celebrates the spirit of community and grassroots fitness, welcoming runners of all paces to experience the diverse neighborhoods and stunning cityscapes of Grand Rapids. Starting and finishing at Veterans Memorial Park, participants can choose to tackle the full marathon or join a team for the exciting relay format, which allows for flexible team configurations and leg distances.
As the second annual overGRound, this year's event promises to be even more dynamic, featuring local running clubs like Lyon Street Run Club, November Project GR, and Society Track Club, all coming together to foster a supportive atmosphere. The carefully designed route will take you past charming coffee shops, parks, and neighborhoods, ensuring a memorable experience for everyone involved. Whether you're running, forming a relay team, volunteering, or cheering from the sidelines, be part of this unique celebration of running and community in Grand Rapids!
As the second annual overGRound, this year's event promises to be even more dynamic, featuring local running clubs like Lyon Street Run Club, November Project GR, and Society Track Club, all coming together to foster a supportive atmosphere. The carefully designed route will take you past charming coffee shops, parks, and neighborhoods, ensuring a memorable experience for everyone involved. Whether you're running, forming a relay team, volunteering, or cheering from the sidelines, be part of this unique celebration of running and community in Grand Rapids!
Organiser's Description
The overGRound is a free, unsanctioned marathon and marathon relay through the city of Grand Rapids whose route showcases the variety of GRs features and neighborhoods (beyond Butterworth and Millennium). This is an inclusive, supportive, and free running event celebrating community and a grassroots, no frills spirit of running and free fitness. It is a co-hosted event featuring the many wonderful running and fitness communities of Grand Rapids. Together, participating clubs can invite people out to run, cheer, and support runners on the course. The public is warmly welcomed to participate.
This is the second year of the overGRound. This year's participating clubs include Lyon Street Run Club, November Project GR, Friendship Miles, Society Track Club, and Village Rec Club.
This year the overGRound will be held October 26, 2025 at 8am, starting and ending at Veterans Memorial Park. The [subject to updates!] carefully designed route [https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/6029318128] passes the many coffee shops that host Lyon Street Run Club, a variety of neighborhoods, cityscapes, and parks, and end passing by November Project Grand Rapids home of Lyon and Bostwick before returning to Veterans Memorial Park.
Whether you run the marathon, organize a team to run the relay, or just show up to support the runners, lets make it once again a fun, unique, out-in-the-open Grand Rapids event that goes beyond the norm.
More details:
* All paces welcome to participate, with every participant from last to first getting a welcome back at Rosa Parks Circle
* This is mostly a self-supported event, but there will be a map, some signage and aid stations on course, and bikers who will check in with runners
* The marathon relay is open to any team configuration or leg distances; the coffee shops make good changepoints but do what works for you
* We encourage you to bring your own bibs and have fun with them
* The 2024 Participant Guide is HERE [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVr8IGMAwVrKhZyP4g17X2qVSv3bGYM7FMZbPrZ8Y78/edit?usp=sharing] to give you the flavor but watch for the 2025 edition coming soon
* The Facebook event is HERE [https://www.facebook.com/share/MFFAP2k38ucv5JDP/] for reference
* You are welcome to do any combination of the following: a) run the marathon, b) run as part of a relay marathon, or c) volunteer to help this event be a success, d) come out and cheer (just show up on the course, or at Rosa Parks Circle, on race morning).
#theoverGRound2024
This is the second year of the overGRound. This year's participating clubs include Lyon Street Run Club, November Project GR, Friendship Miles, Society Track Club, and Village Rec Club.
This year the overGRound will be held October 26, 2025 at 8am, starting and ending at Veterans Memorial Park. The [subject to updates!] carefully designed route [https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/6029318128] passes the many coffee shops that host Lyon Street Run Club, a variety of neighborhoods, cityscapes, and parks, and end passing by November Project Grand Rapids home of Lyon and Bostwick before returning to Veterans Memorial Park.
Whether you run the marathon, organize a team to run the relay, or just show up to support the runners, lets make it once again a fun, unique, out-in-the-open Grand Rapids event that goes beyond the norm.
More details:
* All paces welcome to participate, with every participant from last to first getting a welcome back at Rosa Parks Circle
* This is mostly a self-supported event, but there will be a map, some signage and aid stations on course, and bikers who will check in with runners
* The marathon relay is open to any team configuration or leg distances; the coffee shops make good changepoints but do what works for you
* We encourage you to bring your own bibs and have fun with them
* The 2024 Participant Guide is HERE [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVr8IGMAwVrKhZyP4g17X2qVSv3bGYM7FMZbPrZ8Y78/edit?usp=sharing] to give you the flavor but watch for the 2025 edition coming soon
* The Facebook event is HERE [https://www.facebook.com/share/MFFAP2k38ucv5JDP/] for reference
* You are welcome to do any combination of the following: a) run the marathon, b) run as part of a relay marathon, or c) volunteer to help this event be a success, d) come out and cheer (just show up on the course, or at Rosa Parks Circle, on race morning).
#theoverGRound2024
Races
-
Marathon
Incl. T-Shirt (Possible - Provide Your Size Just in Case)
Sun 26th October 2025 (8:00AM EDT)
Free
This is a (mostly) self-supported marathon on a course that is not closed to traffic. There will a number of aid stations along the route. -
Relay Marathon (Any Leg or Distance)
Incl. T-Shirt (Possible - Provide Your Size Just in Case)
Sun 26th October 2025 (8:00AM EDT)
Free
Relay teams can be made up of any number of runners and distances can be broken up however teammates decide; the main thing is to cover the 26.2 mile route in sequence with your teammates. See some proposed paradigms in the 2024 Participant Guide for reference [a 2025 version will be released prior]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVr8IGMAwVrKhZyP4g17X2qVSv3bGYM7FMZbPrZ8Y78/edit?usp=sharing This is a (mostly) self-supported marathon on a course that is not closed to traffic. There will a number of aid stations along the route. -
Volunteer
Sun 26th October 2025 (7:00AM EDT)
Free
Reviews
Done this event?
First-hand event reviews from people who have been there, done that and got the breathable T-shirt, really help everyone choose their next event.
Add a reviewthe overGRound marathon/relay
