The Maine Community Bank Maine Marathon, Half Marathon and Marathon Relay has a new name, but the change didn’t stop one of the largest fields ever from registering for Sunday’s races.

As of Friday afternoon, more than 5,080 people have registered for the 34th edition of the event, continuing the recent upward trend of signups. Over 4,100 people registered for the 2023 event and more than 4,800 registered last year.

The races begin Sunday at 7:45 a.m. Temperatures will be in the high 50s around the start and climb up to the low 70s by midday.

All races start and finish on Baxter Boulevard near Pedro Field. The USATF-certified 26.2-mile long course is the same as last year’s, stretching from Portland’s Back Cove to Yarmouth and back. The Boston Marathon qualifier takes runners across the Martin’s Point Bridge and through Falmouth Foreside and Cumberland Foreside along Route 88.

Baxter Boulevard will be closed to traffic from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. More information on road closures and parking can be found on the Maine Marathon website.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the top five male, female and non-binary finishers who meet a qualifying standard time. Prizes start at $1,000 for the marathon and $500 for the half marathon.

Ryan Jara of Gorham won the 2024 men’s marathon in 2:21.09, just shy of the race record of 2:19.19 record set by Boston’s Ryan Eiler in 2022. Eiler won last year’s half marathon in 1:04.42, beating the previous record by 1 minute and 17 seconds.

Jenise Madden of Osterville, Massachusetts, won the women’s marathon in 2:53.32. Yarmouth’s Abby Hamilton set the record of 2:39.38 in 2021. Phoebe Oehmig of Brunswick won the women’s half marathon in 1:18.14. The record of 1:15.32 was set by New York City’s Hirut Guangul in 2019.

As of Friday afternoon, none of the four 2024 winners were registered for this year’s event. But the 2023 women’s marathon champion, Emma Howe of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is returning and hopes to make a run at Hamilton’s event record.

The elite men’s field for the half marathon includes the 2024 runner-up, Colin Cernik of Portland, whose time of 1:05:40 was below the previous event record. He’ll be joined by 2022 runner-up Aaron Willingham of Portland and two former college stars who are making their half marathon debuts — Luke Marsanskis (UMaine) of Cumberland and Will Geoghegan (Dartmouth) of Portland.

The women’s half marathon division is headed by 2023 champion Veronica Graziano of Falmouth and former UMaine star Cliodhna O’Malley of Windham. O’Malley was second among Maine women’s at this year’s Beach to Beacon 10K.

Since 1997, the Maine Marathon and its participants have raised nearly $8 million for charity, with over $880,000 raised last year.

Over $60,000 will be donated to three main beneficiaries: In Her Presence, Grahamtastic Connection and Children’s Odyssey.