Late Saturday afternoon, another road race will come through College Hill. The 2014 Race the Bar 5K and 8K will begin Saturday at 4 p.m., downtown on South Elm Street. Streets affected in College Hill will include Spring Garden, Tate, Walker, Carr, Mendenhall, McGee, Cedar, and Fulton.
Race organizers expect runners to reach the neighborhood by about 4:10 p.m. and be gone by 4:40. Police will be stationed along the way.
Maps of the routes are below. They’re similar but not exactly the same.
The 8K race comes up Spring Garden, goes right on Tate, then down Carr and onto campus. Runners will return from UNCG by coming up Carr to Mendenhall, then right to McGee, left to Cedar and back to downtown on Spring Garden.
The 5K course comes up Spring Garden to Tate, down to Walker Avenue, up Walker and all the way down to Fulton, and then out to Spring Garden again and back downtown.