Thanks to the success a few years back of the inaugural Best Damn Race about an hour away in Safety Harbor, Fla., the organizers of this half marathon, 10K and 5K decided to launch a second Best Damn Race event with the same race distances in Orlando in 2014.
Like its sister race in Safety Harbor, the Orlando Best Damn Race’s proceeds go to benefit the Special Olympics Florida, and will feature what the race director calls a “Ticketmaster”-style registration that gives runners the chance to sign up for as little as one dollar. Just over 3,200 runners finished the race in 2016, including more than 1,100 finishers in the half marathon.