Neuse River Bridge Run Half Marathon 10k & 5k

New Bern also boasts the pharmacy whose claim to fame is the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola, where local druggist Caleb Bradham invented what he called “Brad’s Drink,” and which he later patented as the formula for the fizzy soft drink we know today as Pepsi. The course for the race shows off much of the scenery for which the city is known, as it takes runners along the streets and along the waters of the Trent and Neuse Rivers that flow past the city’s eastern and southern edges. Runners in all three races follow an out-and-back course that starts and finishes in New Bern’s Union Point Park, which overlooks where the rivers meet from the city’s southeastern corner, and from there follow a largely fast and flat route through the city’s streets.