Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon & 5K Road Race

11/03/2025

More good photos for your viewing pleasure...tag a friend

11/02/2025

More great photos of the event today. Tag a friend

11/02/2025

Congratulations to all the participants today! It was a great event and a great morning to run or walk.

Here are some sights and sounds. We also had a photographer there, so check out his site for your photo.

https://marathonphotos.live/recent

10/31/2025

The weather on race morning is looking good. It will be great race day conditions thankfully! 🙌🏼
Happy Halloween 🎃

10/28/2025

For all those who switched to the virtual run, you can upload your virtual results at this below link. You can do your virtual run anytime through Nov 5. Congrats on your run!

For those who can't make the new date of this Sunday, Nov 2, you can still switch to virtual by following the instructions on a previous post.

Here is the link to upload your virtual results

The Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon, 10K & 5K is on Sunday November 2, 2025. It includes the following events: Half Marathon, 10K, 5K, Kid's One Mile Fun Run, Virtual Half Marathon, Virtual 10K, and Virtual 5K.

10/26/2025

OK, Moving Forward!

The National Weather Service Long Range Weather forecast for the Greater New Orleans area until November 8, 2025.

Join us for the 2025 Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon presented by Planet Fitness on Sunday, November 2, 2025!

Have a wonderful Sunday and we hope to see each of you next Sunday morning on November 2nd at the Blue Crab Restaurant!

The Big Easy Halloween Half Marathon, 10K & 5K is on Sunday November 2, 2025. It includes the following events: Half Marathon, 10K, 5K, Kid's One Mile Fun Run, Virtual Half Marathon, Virtual 10K, and Virtual 5K.

10/26/2025

10/26/2025

NOTE TO SELF!

I’ve been here at the Blue Crab with one hell of a lighting storm in full view. I came here at 5:45am because I was meeting a couple that was flying in from Germany to run this race, and enjoy the Big Easy until the 30th and fly home.

But, I was also coming here because I knew that someone did not see our cancellation emails or read our cancellation rmails and our Facebook Notifications.

Please say hello to Roberta from Phoenix, AZ, who stepped out of her uber and walked up to my car and asked if this was the Halloween Half Marathon race site. After I helped pick her jaw off the ground, we had a laugh or several, as she realized that she deleted two of our emails and never went to the the race website prior to leaving a half marathin in Fort Worth yesterday.

Always, Always check and events website each day prior to any mass participation event.

Roberta, have a safe flight back to Arizona and enjoy the 2025 T-Shirt and Finisher medal. Enjoy your virtual Big Easy event!

10/26/2025

It’s Mother Natures playground, and we must play by her rules!!!

I’m sitting here in my car waiting to see if anyone shows up to race that did not see or read any of the cancellation emails we have posted about this mornings event here at the Blue Crab Restaurant. There is steady rain right now with lighting in the area on the lakefront.

As i’m sitting here in my car and I just teceived a Tornado Warning text message for Jefferson Parish which is about one mile from my location until 10:00am

It’s rolling in now!

10/25/2025

Many of our athletes have already run the race virtually this morning!

Excited that Anna, Bar Harbor, Maine and Lauren & Craig are here from California!

Thanks for joining us here in the Big Easy!

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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