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The Firecracker Fast 5K has returned from the pandemic.
Adjustments have become commonplace since covid-19 established a worldwide foothold in early 2020. The Firecracker was one of the countless traditions skipped because of the contagion, and though it will make a comeback in Little Rock on Sunday, further adjustments were made because of the virus persistence.
The Firecracker, first run in 1977 over a 7-mile course in Little Rock s Heights neighborhood, was raced on a downhill point-to-point course from the Heights to War Memorial Stadium from 1988 through its last running in 2019. This year, on Sunday at 7:30 a.m., the Firecracker will start on Monroe Street between War Memorial Stadium and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus on an out-and-back course with a nearly 1-mile loop through the Hillcrest neighborhood between miles 1 and 2.