Registration for the sixth annual Murfreesboro Half Marathon (“The Middle Half”) and Murph’s Fun Run presented by Middle Tennessee Medical Center will open Friday, June 1, 2012.

Last year, the event sold out in just eleven days. Registration is limited to 2500 participants.

Participants may register online by credit or debit card at www.themiddlehalf.com beginning at 8:00 a.m. Mail-in forms for check payments will be available locally at Fleet Feet Sports, Sports*Com, Patterson Park Community Center, Barfield Crescent Park office. The form may also be downloaded from the event website.

The 13.1-mile race is scheduled for Saturday, October 13, 2012. Because the course runs by the geographic center of Tennessee, begins and ends at Middle Tennessee State University and is presented by Middle Tennessee Medical Center, it has been tagged “The Middle Half”.

Registration for Murph’s Fun Run will also begin on June 1. Children ages six to thirteen will have an opportunity to participate in the one-mile run which will begin immediately after the half marathon start. Registration is limited to 250 fun run participants.

An official Murfreesboro City Bicentennial event, the course goes down scenic tree-lined Main Street and Maney Avenue to Oaklands Historic House Museum. Runners will circle the Rutherford County Courthouse on the Square, pass by by MTSU’s Fraternity Row and the obelisk on Old Lascassas, and then finish on the MTSU track.

Sponsors include Middle Tennessee Medical Center, The City of Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro Parks & Recreation Department, Fleet Feet Sports, Middle Tennessee State University, Jim ‘N’ Nick’s, State Farm, Backer, Little Guys Movers, The WORX Group, Purity, Newk’s Express Café, The Daily News Journal, The Murfreesboro Post, Murfreesboro Magazine, HobNob Murfreesboro and WGNS.

For more information, visit www.TheMiddleHalf.com.