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Online Registration for the AJC Peachtree Road Race Opens Sunday, March 21 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Changes Announced for the AJC Peachtree Road Race Start Assignment Process and Race Number Pick-Up

Atlanta, March 12, 2010 - Online registration for the AJC Peachtree Road Race will open Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT at ajc.com/peachtree. The first 45,000 out of a total of 55,000 entries will be accepted through online registration. Peachtree entrants will see some new additions to this year’s registration process. For the first time in the event’s history, start wave assignments will be performance-based - instead of randomly assigned as in years past - to help ease congestion at the start as well as along the course. Event participants will have the opportunity to submit a finish time from a past race during registration, and will be placed in the appropriate start wave based on their time. Also new for 2010, Peachtree participants will have the opportunity to pick up their race numbers at the Peachtree Health and Fitness Expo at the AmericasMart in downtown Atlanta on Friday, July 2 and Saturday, July 3. Entrants who wish to have their race numbers mailed to them will be able to select to do so during the registration process for a $5 postage and handling fee. 
Those that are not able to secure one of the first 45,000 slots in the race through online registration, or who prefer mailing in their payment with their registration form can fill out the paper application that will run in the AJC on Sunday, March 28. The remaining 10,000 slots will be selected at random from all the paper applications received by mail and postmarked by April 5, 2010.  

The 41st running of the AJC Peachtree Road Race will take place on Sunday, July 4, 2010. The entry fee for the 2010 AJC Peachtree Road Race is $33. Visit atlantatrackclub.org/peachtree or ajc.com/peachtree for additional information regarding the AJC Peachtree Road Race.  

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About The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race is a 10K event that takes place every Fourth of July in Atlanta , Georgia .  The first Peachtree was held in 1970 and featured 110 runners.  The AJC Peachtree Road Race is now the largest running event in the United States with 55,000 participants.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race is perhaps most famous for the coveted AJC Peachtree Road Race T-shirt, which is handed out to all the event finishers.  For more information on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race visit atlantatrackclub.org or ajc.com/peachtree.     

About the Atlanta Track Club

The Atlanta Track Club is a non-profit organization established to inspire and engage the community to achieve health and fitness through running. With close to 10,000 members, the ATC is the second largest running organization in the United States . In addition to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race – the largest running event in the US – and the Atlanta Half Marathon, the Atlanta Track Club directs more than 25 running events per year.  For more information on the Atlanta Track Club, please visit atlantatrackclub.org.  

About The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the leading source — both in print and online — of news, information and advertising for metropolitan Atlanta, reaching a total print and online audience of nearly 2.2 million people each week. Every month, nearly 2.3 million unique visitors access the newspaper's Web sites, including ajc.com and accessAtlanta.com. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is part of Cox Media Group, a publishing, digital media and broadcasting subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises.