Route 66 Relay - Centennial Celebration

Route 66 Relay - Centennial Celebration starts on December 12, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The event is a 100-mile relay race (160.9 km) setting off at 5:00 a.m., a team format in which runners take turns covering successive legs rather than one person running the whole distance.

Relays of this length are as much logistics as running: legs get shared out by pace, a vehicle leapfrogs the course, and everyone runs several times across the day with broken rest in between. Train for repeated efforts rather than one long one, adding a second short run on a couple of days each week so your legs learn to work again a few hours after finishing. Sleep and food planning matter as much as fitness here.