This year, friends and family will be able to track marathon, half-marathon and 5K runners as well as relay teams out on the course. This is a FREE service, courtesy of Corrigan Sports.

Register online for the FREE Baltimore Running Festival runner tracking services. Use this helpful information to track your favorite runners, and to reunite with loved ones Family Reunion Zone. The message will provide the runner’s time, pace and expected finish time.

You will be able to receive tracking messages on your mobile phone via text messaging, have an email sent to your inbox, or have posts placed on your facebook or twitter accounts.

Alerts are triggered when each runner’s individual timing chip crosses a timing mat that is part of the runner tracking system. By tracking a runner, you will receive the following messages:

Full Marathon: Mile 13.1, Mile 19.5, Finish
Half-Marathon: Mile 6.5, Finish
Relay: End of each relay leg
5K: Finish