Maine Marathon
The Gorham Savings Bank Maine Marathon is a series of USATF certified road running events held each October in Portland, Maine that include a full marathon and a half marathon, as well as a marathon relay. The course is an out-and-back that starts and finishes along the Back Cove of Portland, going up the coast to Yarmouth and back. The 2012 race is on Sept. 30, and the 2013 event is on Oct. 6.
From 1978 through 1987, the event was known as the Casco Bay Marathon.
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Famous quotes containing the words maine and/or marathon:
“It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)