10/23/2025
EVENT WEATHER UPDATE:
We have made the decision to move this Sunday's event to next Sunday, November 2, 2025 due to the forecast of inclement weather on race morning. This decision was made after several hours of phone calls with the National Weather Service Office, City of New Orleans officials, Lakefront Management Authority officials, our Sponsors and our host at the Blues Crab Restaurant.
The event will start and finish at the same location from the Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar with our Half Marathon Starting at 7:15am, our 5K and 10K starting at 7:30am and our Kids One Mile Fun Run starting at 10:00am.
We know for many of our registered athletes this situation doesn't work for your travel and time schedules, so we have three options below to hopefully accommodate each athlete with this date change to the 2025 event.
1.) Race next week on Sunday November 2, 2025 at 7:15am from the Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar. You do not need to do anything if this is your choice.
2.) Race Virtually from any place in the world! If you choose to go virtual, you can pick up your race bib, t-shirt and finisher medal at the Blue Crab Restaurant this Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 11:00am to 5:00pm. If you live out of town, we will mail your virtual package if you do not pick it up in person. Please follow these instructions if this is your choice.
To Transfer to the Virtual Event, log into RunSignup, navigating to Profile > Upcoming Events > Manage Registration > Transfer Event. The Transfer Event option can be either located on the top of the page or on the left of the page.
On the Transfer Event page, you will be shown your Transfer Information. Please confirm the information is correct and accurate. To transfer this registration, you must go through the registration process for the new event. You can confirm Transfer by clicking on the "Start Transfer" button.
Next, you will be shown the standard registration process where you can select the Virtual event for this Transfer. To transfer this registration, you must go through the registration process for the new Virtual event.
This concludes the Transfer Event process. You will receive a confirmation email for the new event.
Here is a link for video instructions on this process: https://youtu.be/POY9X-xdv2o
3.) Defer your 2025 Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon Registration to our event next year, which will be run on Sunday, October 25, 2026. If this is your choice, follow these instructions to defer yourself.
The defer option can be found by logging into RunSignup, navigating to Profile >> Upcoming Events >> Manage Registration >> Defer Registration.
The defer option will either be located at the top of the page or left side of the page. On the Defer Registration page, you will be shown your Deferral Information and Total Payment. Please confirm that the information is correct and accurate. You can confirm deferral by clicking on the "Confirm Deferral" button.
You will receive an email notification showing details of your deferral. This can be used to claim the deferral for next year.
Here is a link with video instructions.
https://youtu.be/4asoH36WPzE
We will give out race packets for next weekend's event on the following schedule:
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 11:00am to 5:00pm - Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 11:00am to 5:00pm - Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Sunday, November 2, 2025 - 5:00am to 6:45am - Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Nothing is more important than the safety of our athlete's, spectators, staff, volunteers and our first responders. A special thanks to our athletes, City Officials and Lakefront Management Officials for the flexibility to make this move on such a short notice.
All the best to each of you and "Thanks for Joining Us" at the 2025 Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon presented by Planet Fitness!
If you have any questions to the above information, please email us at [email protected]
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