2019 MGC Long Run to take place on Feb. 2

The MGC Long Run returns to Columbia, SC on Saturday, February 2. The MGC Long Run joins forces with the USO South Carolina for a fifth year, helping support our troops and their families. Net proceeds from the MGC Long Run will benefit the USO South Carolina, an organization whose mission is to strengthen America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

The MGC Long Run has a race for everyone – 15k Road Race, 5k Run/Walk and a half-mile Kids’ Fun Run. The races will begin and end at the First Citizens Plaza, located at the corner of Lady St. and Main St. Runners, walkers, volunteers and spectators are encouraged to join the family-friendly race party taking place in the First Citizens Plaza.

The MGC Long Run is presented by McAngus Goudelock & Courie (MGC), a regional insurance defense firm headquartered in Columbia. MGC launched the inaugural Long Run in 2014 as a way to give back to the Midlands community where the firm was founded. The MGC Long Run has raised nearly $125,000 for nonprofit organizations over the past five years. Last year’s race had over 600 runners and walkers and 125 volunteers.

The MGC Long Run 15k route features three cities and two bridges. Runners will experience a race that goes through downtown Columbia, West Columbia and Cayce, crossing both the Gervais St. and Blossom St. bridges.

Race sponsors include McAngus Goudelock & Courie, The Surgery Center at Midlands Orthopaedics, P.A., Synovus, McGriff Insurance Services, Bauknight Pietras & Stormer, Office Depot, Structure Services Inc., F3 Concepts LLC and Old Republic Title, among others. For more information about the MGC Long Run, including volunteer information, please visit www.mgclongrun.com.

About the MGC Long Run

The MGC Long Run will take place in downtown Columbia on Saturday, February 2, 2019. The race is presented by McAngus Goudelock & Courie, a regional insurance defense firm headquartered in Columbia, and net proceeds will benefit the USO South Carolina. For more information, please visitwww.mgclongrun.com.

About the USO South Carolina

USO South Carolina provides a home away from home and a sense of community for over 100,000 service members annually by offering a safe, comfortable, and relaxing lounge as they travel through the Columbia Metropolitan Airport. In addition to the center inside the Columbia Airport, the USO South Carolina serves the military population training at McCrady Training Center with a dayroom and USO in a Box. USO South Carolina also offers morale-boosting and family-strengthening programs, deployment and redeployment support to help servicemen and women adjust to the duty ahead, resiliency training for families facing multiple deployments, discreet and compassionate escorts and other support for Families of the Fallen. For more information on how you can join our patriotic mission, please visit www.uso.org/southcarolina.