Grand Rapids Marathon

The Metro Health/Grand Rapids Marathon is a 26.219-mile (42.195 km) race run every October in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA since 2004. It is a USATF certified course. The Grand Rapids Marathon picked up Metro Health as a title sponsor in 2008. The full marathon gives runners a tour of downtown Grand Rapids and then heads out of the city and into the trails of Millennium Park. It is considered a flat, fast course and is a qualifying opportunity for the Boston Marathon.

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The race director is Don Kern.

The marathon utilizes "celebrity" pace teams, based on the times of famous people who had run marathons. The current pace teams include Oprah Winfrey (4:29), P. Diddy (4:14), Will Ferrell (3:56), George W. Bush (3:44), William Baldwin (3:24), and Pi (3:14).

Apart from the main event, there is also a kids marathon, 5K, 10K, half-marathon, marathon relay and fitness expo.

The course record of 2:26.41 was set by David Mart (Zeeland, Michigan) in 2013.

The 2015 overall winner was Brendan Molony (Kalamazoo, Michigan) with a time of 2:31:15. The 2015 female winner was Angela Swain (Evanston, Illinois), who achieved a time of 2:57:56. Also in 2015, John Gries (East Lansing, Michigan) won the half-marathon with a time of 1:09:51, and Nicole Michmerhuizen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) was the female winner with 1:20:09.

The next running will be held on Sunday, October 23, 2016 and is expected to be a 6,000-person event.