Ye Olde Pasta Party

Runners can carb-load for the Marine Corps Historic Half at the Pasta Party in the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center Ballroom. The pasta dinner features a selection of pasta and sauces, while runners enjoy live entertainment, a motivational speaker, prizes and more!

The 2008 featured entertainment included Kathrine Switzer, best known for breaking the gender barrier in running when she was the first woman to pin on a bib number and officially run the Boston Marathon, in 1967.

Switzer was joined by Roger Robinson, an internationally acclaimed as a writer on running, Senior Writer for Running Times magazine, and winner of the George Sheehan Award for running journalism in America.