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'24 Pemberton24

09.20-09.21.24

Pemberton24

It’s more than a 5k (5.2k this year)!

It’s the craziest time of year and the madness that is Pemberton seems to fit right in! After last year’s smaller event due to postponement from a hurricane, Pemberton, Trent & Volunteers came back with a bang!

🏃🏽‍♀️450 AMAZING Runners

The largest crowd to date. Team entries sold out and the most individual runners ever. Lots of fast runners, lots of walkers, and lots of kids! While all had different goals, everyone was supportive, friendly, and were willing to chat & cheer for each other. It felt like family!

👊🏾Volunteers

THANK YOU!!! From the guy who made new timing wrist bands, to the food/fuel/PANCAKE BACON TACOS makers, to the homemade banana bread baker, to DJ Gabe keeping us all dancing (and awake in Tent City), to the EMT bandaging us up, to the FIST BUMP GUY after every single 5k, to photographers who captured some really weird shit, to the campfire wood delivery dudes, to Trent for making this event better & better, and for his wife & kids for putting up with him so he can keep this fantastic, freakishly fun tradition alive - THANK YOU!! 🙏🏼

🐻 Chased by Bears

And dinosaurs 🦖 and unicorns 🦄 and chickens 🐓 and Grimace and sharks 🦈 Oh my!

🌊 Halfway High Tide

During the hours of 5-9 am and pm, the stretches along Wicomico River (aka “Halfway Gravel”) turned into a cool leg bath. It was refreshing. I didn’t like hearing chatter about “water snakes not being venomous but their bites hurt” 🤪

I'll miss Pemberton24 next year but can’t wait to return in 2026 with Team 3Ms and a J (or some variation)!!

12 - 5.2ks = 39 miles

Lots of dancing, endless laughter and John Cena for liiiife! 🤣

@alq50k

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