With unique features such as the Ambassador Bridge, the tunnel, and returning to Canada and seeing friends lining the route back in Windsor. Les Feher of Amherstburg Ont., just outside Windsor, has run the marathon twice. ROUTE METRICS 13. When the runner shows up at the race expo, they bring their passports or enhanced drivers’ licences for a final check. A relatively flat A to B running route, approximately 13.1 miles long. and Canadian authorities for pre-screening. What about Customs clearance? As soon as someone registers online their personal information is sent to U.S. “It’s the only race in the world with an underwater mile.” “It’s the only race in the world where you can cross international borders twice,” race director Rich Harshberger says. DETROIT The Detroit Free Press Marathon’s route looks quite different this year, big changes have been made to the course. The race starts off in the office canyons of Detroit, heads east through the traditional historic neighbourhoods of Corktown (Irish) and Mexican Town, across the Ambassador Bridge, into Windsor, back to Detroit, and eventually east to the city’s pastoral Belle Isle – an immense urban park planned by Frederick Law Olmstead, who also designed Montreal’s Mount Royal and New York’s Central Park – and then swings back to downtown. This year, 2,067 Canadians were registered. The fact Windsor, Ont., lies only a mile across the Detroit River also means thousands of Canucks lace up their shoes in Motown to run across the Ambassador Bridge and then four miles through Windsor – including along its riverfront with spectacular views of downtown Detroit – to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and back to the Motor City. The international flavour might add to the draw. But that hasn’t stopped a growing contingent of people from around the world competing in it, and this year it was sold out two weeks before deadline. But the fact the NFL never set its schedule until April made it difficult for race planners to know on which fall Sunday a Lions home game would take place, conflicting with the race date.ĭetroit may hardly seem like a marathon city. It used to end at Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions football team. The marathon, in its 34 th year, used to begin in downtown Detroit outside Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, but in recent years the start and finish was shifted to the central business district next to the Detroit Free Press building. The Detroit Free Press Marathon has to be one of the most unique marathons in North America if only because it runs in two countries and crosses a body of water twice – once by bridge, the other by tunnel.
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