Walkway Marathon

Walkway Marathon
Date June
Location Poughkeepsie, New York and surrounding Hudson Valley areas
Event type Road and rail trail
Distance Marathon
Established 2015
Course records Men: 2:39:32 (2017)
Spencer Johnson
Women: 3:08:51 (2017)
Rachel Darling
Official site walkwaymarathon.org

The Walkway Marathon is an annual marathon held in June in Poughkeepsie, New York and surrounding areas of the Hudson Valley.

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.[1][2] 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 on June 10-11, 2017.

List of winners

Marathon

Edition Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
1st June 13, 2015  Garrett Burger (USA) 2:57:36[3]  Rebecca Trachsel (USA) 3:14:48[4]
2nd June 12, 2016  Mark Rabasco (USA) 2:52:29[5]  Katie Messina (USA) 3:14:00[6]
3rd June 11, 2017  Spencer Johnson (USA) 2:39:32[7]  Rachel Darling (USA) 3:08:51[8]

Half marathon

Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
2015  Will Griffin (USA) 1:11:40  Laura Pierce (USA) 1:27:58
2016  Sam Heraghty (USA) 1:16:57  Rachel Sleeter (USA) 1:25:31
2017  Ruslan Kramariuk (Ukraine) 1:15:39  Kristen Gregory (USA) 1:31:28

5K race

Year Men's winner Time (m:s) Women's winner Time (m:s)
2015  Steve Rizzo (USA) 15:41  Sarah Popovitch (USA) 20:23
2016  Steve Rizzo (USA) 15:52  Kayla Sullivan (USA) 20:26
2017  Stefan Morton (USA) 15:00  Nicki Nesi (USA) 18:05

See also

References

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