How To Watch The Houston Marathon This Weekend

HOUSTON, TX — The streets of downtown will be blocked off most of the morning Sunday as the annual Chevron Houston Marathon gets underway. The marathon will have starts at 6:45 a.m. and 7 a.m. The wheelchair half marathon begins at 6:45 a.m. and the half marathon begins at 7 a.m.

The weather should be chilly but comfortable for those not running but wanting to cheer the athletes along the route, which begins downtown at Congress and San Jacinto and ends at Lamar and Crawford.

The 26.2-mile Chevron Houston Marathon and 13.1-mile Aramco Houston Half Marathon both take the same route for more than 7.5 miles, which is to head west down Congress for a little more than two miles before turning left on Heights Blvd. and Waugh, then it turns right on W. Gray near the 5-mile mark and then left on Kirby all the way to Bissonet, where it turns back to the east (don't worry, the attached map has the routes, too).

The half marathon and wheelchair half keep s moving on Bissonet before turning left (north) on M0ntrose all the way to Allen Parkway, where it turns back east toward the finish line.

The marathon from Bissonet turns right (south) on mantle and then southwest on Rice. At mile 9 it shifts west on University Blvd., makes a right (north) on Wesleyan, left (west) on Westpark and then right on the the west-side feeder road of I-610, which turns into Post Oak Blvd. It turns left (west) on San Felipe and then right on Tanglewood, which turns into Chimey Rock by mile 17. It makes a right (east) on Memorial Drive and continues there 5 miles until it reaches downtown for the final 3 miles on Allen Parkway and then Lamar.

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Race Records

Men’s Marathon – 2:06:51
(Tariku Jufar, 2012)

Women’s Marathon – 2:23:14
(Alemitu Abera, 2012)

Men’s Half Marathon – 59:22
(Feyisa Lilesa, 2012)

Women’s Half Marathon – 1:06:29
(Mary Wacera, 2016)

Past winners

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