Seattle Marathon
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The Seattle Marathon is an annual marathon held in Seattle, Washington on the last Sunday in November. Currently sponsored by Amica Insurance (Amica Mutual Insurance), the marathon was established in 1970 when a group of 38 runners attempted to run the 42.195-kilometre (26.219 mi) challenge. Thirty-one of them managed to finish.
The present course begins on 5th Avenue N. between Harrison and Mercer Streets in front of the Experience Music Project on the eastern edge of the Seattle Center campus, follows 5th Avenue through Downtown and the International District to Interstate 90, follows I-90 across Lake Washington to Mercer Island, turns around and heads back across the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge to the shoreline, follows Lake Washington Boulevard S. to Seward Park, loops Bailey Peninsula, and follows Lake Washington Boulevard S. back up the shoreline to McGilvra Boulevard E. in Madison Park. From there, the course follows E. Madison Street southwest to the southern entrance of the Washington Park Arboretum, turning north on Lake Washington Boulevard E. to E. Interlaken Boulevard. The course follows Interlaken northwest out of the Arboretum and through Interlaken Park, then west across Interstate 5 to Boylston Avenue E. Heading south, it follows Boylston back under the freeway, where it becomes Lakeview Boulevard E., then follows Lakeview south, once again over the interstate, to Eastlake Avenue E. The course turns west on Republican Street through Cascade to Dexter Avenue N., where it jogs north one block to Mercer Street, then turns south on 4th Avenue N. and finishes within Memorial Stadium in Seattle Center.[1]
References
- Joel Steven Rouse "It's tough, wet and has no prize money, but diehards love Seattle Marathon", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 30, 2002
- Jon Naito, "Seattle Marathon will be missing a Steidl: Uli won't go for ninth win in a row", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 23, 2007
- Perry, N., "Just 1% of Marathon money goes to charity", The Seattle Times, November 26, 2007.
- Jeff Graham, "Married couple wins Seattle Marathon", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 27, 2006
- David Andriesen, "This marathon is for Maniacs", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 24, 2006
- Ronald Tillery, "Race Moves Downtown", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 28, 1998
- "Runners beating path to Seattle Marathon: Foreign contingent growing for Sunday's 30th annual race", Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 25, 1999