Date June Established 2015 Distance Marathon | Event type Road and rail trail Official site walkwaymarathon.org | |
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Location Poughkeepsie, New York and surrounding Hudson Valley areas Course records Men: 2:52:29 (2016)
Mark Rabasco
Women: 3:14:00 (2016)
Katie Messina |
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The Walkway Marathon is an annual marathon held in June in Poughkeepsie, New York and surrounding areas of the Hudson Valley.
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The first event, run on June 13, 2015, featured full and half marathons and a 5K run, attracting a total of nearly 2,500 participants (and another 2,500 visitors watching them), including 283 runners in the full marathon. The routes started at Marist College and included the Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park, which the runners traversed in both directions, as well as some adjacent segments of rail trails in Dutchess and Ulster Counties.
The second run was held June 11-12, 2016, and the third will be June 10-11, 2017.
The walkway marathon
References
Walkway Marathon Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA