The Portland Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event held in the city of Portland, Oregon. The 2013 Portland Marathon will be held Sunday, October 6, 2013. It was first held in 1972 and has been held every year since. The marathon is generally held in October, with as many as 10,000 runners competing. It features both full marathon and half marathon events, a 10K Downhill Dash, a 10K Non-competitive Family Walk, and a Kid's Fun Run & Obstacle Course.
The marathon starts and finishes near Chapman/Lownsdale/Schrunk Parks in downtown Portland. Participants have eight hours in which to finish the marathon. The men's course record of 2:17:21 hours was set by German runner Uli Steidl in 1997. Japan's Hiromi Yokoyama holds the women's course record with her time of 2:36:40 hours from 1991.
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“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)