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Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown

Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown

Click here to sign up for the 2025 GZTC, produced by our partners at Run Tucson.

Participating in the GZTC will take you:

Get motivated and get moving with three popular Tucson events, benefitting local charities. All ages, all abilities, all bodies – come run, walk, or roll with us. For more information and FAQs, click here.

History of the GZTC

Running shows us the power within ourselves. The GZTC is an annual three-race series that commemorates Gabe Zimmerman, a Tucson native who lost his life in the tragic January 2011 shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. Gabe was a 30 year old congressional staffer who acted as Gabrielle Giffords’ community outreach director. He was allegedly known as “constituent whisper,” because he was so good at communicating with people. Gabe was killed doing what he was best at: supporting his community, trying to make it a better place for everyone, regardless of their politics or backgrounds. In Gabe’s honor, the U.S. Capital has the Gabe Zimmerman Meeting Room, and Tucson has the Gabe Zimmerman Davidson Canyon Trailhead as well as the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown. We are grateful to Ross Zimmerman (Gabe’s father) and Julia Strange at Tucson Medical Center for developing the concept of the Gabe Zimmerman Triple Crown. His presence will forever be a part of our community.

Our goal is to celebrate Gabe and motivate the community to aspire to individual and collective greatness – to work alone and work with others towards those goals we find valuable, to celebrate living, community, and good will, and to live with love and passion for chasing our dreams.

The 2025 GZTC Includes

  • Registration to May 31st, Meet Me Downtown 5K Run/Walk and 1-Mile, including blue souvenir race shirt – staged in Downtown Tucson.
  • Registration to September 7th, TMC Tucson 10K and 5K, including souvenir race shirt and commemorative finisher’s medal – staged at Pima Community College West, in the Tucson Mountains.
  • Registration to October 19th, TMC A-Mountain Half Marathon and A-Mountain 4 Mile, including souvenir race shirt and commemorative finishers medal – staged in the west side of Downtown Tucson at the Mercado Annex.
  • The 2025 Run Tucson Triple Crown t-shirt.
  • The unique “Gabe Z” Meet Me Downtown souvenir – details to be announced in Spring 2025.

Charity Goals

Each year from 2011-2016, $10 from each Triple Crown entry was donated to Gabe’s favorite non-profit, Child and Family Resources. Additional Tucson-based organizations also received a portion of the proceeds from the individual events. Over $100,000 has been donated due to your efforts!

Since 2017, the Triple Crown has donated $10 from each entry to the Beyond foundation offering a unique Rx health formula emphasizing four key pillars that supports optimum physical and mental health:

  • EXPLORE: Getting outdoors and spending time in nature;
  • MOVE: Engaging in regular physical activity;
  • NOURISH: Eating healthy foods; and
  • CONNECT: Connecting with one another as a community.

These four key pillars support the basis of Beyond’s mission. Along with its partners, Beyond provides year-round opportunities for the public to participate in a series of healthy programs such as Meet Me Monday, Meet Me Wednesday, and various hiking and biking events.