Pre-registered participants receive free T-shirts • free food and drink • chances to win door prizes • entertainment •
proceeds benefit sea turtle conservation and research.
- Registration Fees: Adults: $25 through March 24, 2012; $30 from March 24, 2012 through race day . Children 10 & younger: $15 through March 24, 2012; $20 from March 24, 2012 through race day
- On Race Day: Registration begins 6:30 a.m. at the Siesta Key Gazebo, south of the pavilion. The 1-Mile Fun Run or Walk begins at 7:30 a.m. and the 5K Manasota Track Club-Sanctioned Run begins at 8 a.m.
All sea turtle species are considered threatened or endangered under federal law. Mote’s research provides crucial information to help resource managers protect these ancient reptiles and Run for the Turtles helps to support these efforts.The Run helps cover the cost of tags that allow Mote to follow turtles for decades, helps Mote’s Sea Turtle Patrol re-paint thousands of stakes to mark nests and provides screens to protect nests from predators. Run proceeds have also helped pay for batteries used in hand-held GPS devices used to mark and locate nests, repairs for all-terrain vehicles used to patrol beaches, digital cameras used to document the tracks of turtle hatchlings that lost their way to sea and even latex gloves for digging out hatched nests for documentation.
