Overview The Bungalow Beach Boardwalk 5 Miler is a Saturday-morning race down the Atlantic City Boardwalk in early June that finishes on the sand: the last stretch leaves the boards for the beach and ends at Bungalow Beach, an Ibiza-style beach bar. It is one of three race weekends in the Atlantic City Marathon Race Series, with an April Fools half marathon and 8K in spring and the Atlantic City Marathon in October. The series is a department of the Marjorie and Lewis Katz JCC of Atlantic County, a nonprofit, and its races support local charities and the JCC's early childhood scholarships. The Atlantic City Marathon dates to 1958, and the series calls it the third-oldest continuing marathon in the United States. On site The start is at 8 a.m. on the Boardwalk at Iowa Avenue, in front of the Tropicana. The course runs out along the boards into Ventnor, turns at New Haven Avenue with water at miles two and three, and comes back to finish on the beach, with less than 400 feet on sand. There is a two-hour limit. Every finisher gets a custom medal and a tank or tee, and awards go out on the beach at 9 and 10 a.m. The post-race party at Bungalow Beach has music, food and drink. Packet pickup runs at the Katz JCC in Margate and at a Boardwalk beer garden the day before. Audience The series draws a traveling field. Across its three race weekends, 78% of visitors came from outside Atlantic County, 1,450 used hotel rooms, and each runner brought an average of 1.87 people along. Runners averaged $243.29 in spending each, and the series' advertising brought in runners from every state and 11 countries. The 5 Miler is open to runners 10 and up, with age groups running to 80 and over. Track record In the series' 2025 sponsorship figures, the Bungalow Beach run accounted for 1,000 of the series' 6,300 runners, and 11,408 spectators came out across the three weekends. Brand presence The series sells a title partnership across all three race weekends on a three-year commitment, with industry exclusivity, a joint name and logo, the logo at every start and finish line and on every mile marker, and the chance to present medals. Each race, the 5 Miler included, can take its own presenting partner on a two-year term with the same course and finish-line placement and an item in every participant bag. Single-race positions cover the runner expo, the pace car, mile markers and course signage, a hydration station, the finish line and the digital race photos.