The Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission will host its annual Sledgehammer Half-Marathon, 10K, and 5K beach runs on Saturday, Apr. 11.<\/p>\n
The races will take place at Beach Access No. 2 on Island Drive in North Topsail Beach, with pre-race ceremonies beginning at 8:15 a.m. and the race starting at 8:30 a.m. Organizers said more than 500 runners are already registered.<\/p>\n
The event is named in honor of Eugene \u201cSledgehammer\u201d Sledge, a U.S. Marine who served in World War II with the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater. Sledge later became a biology professor and author of the memoir \u201cWith the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa,\u201d which detailed his combat experiences.<\/p>\n
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The race series honors Sledge and all combat veterans. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Semper Fi & America\u2019s Fund, which supports wounded, critically ill, and injured service members and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville-Onslow Sports Commission will host its annual Sledgehammer Half-Marathon, 10K, and 5K beach runs on Saturday, Apr.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-224976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}