The pictures below were taking on a bicycle on Sunday 8/12/07 and show the roads and turns for the 2007 Columbus Marathon route. I have not tried to photograph every foot of the route but, rather, to give an idea of what each road is like, to show changes in elevation when clearly visible, and the indicate turns. I've also tried to give something of the flavor of each route. The original photos have been reduced to conserve bandwidth and reduced to thumbnails on this page (and following) in order to speed page loading. Click on the thumbnails to bring the larger photo up in a separate window. Additionally, the hyperlink below will bring up a GPS trail file for the route as ridden.

	Click on the thumbnail to the left for a jpg file of the marathon route. Click on the link below for a pdf file of the same thing. Or go to http://www.columbusmarathon.com/ for more information.	Marathon Route: Page 1 - Start to Near Mile Mark 7 Marathon Route: Page 2 - Near Mile Mark 7 to the Midpoint Marathon Route: Page 3 - Midpoint to Kenny and Ackerman Marathon Route: Page 4 - Kenny and Ackerman to OSU Marathon Route: Page 5 - OSU to the Finish
MARATHON MAP (PDF FILE)		Marathon Route GPS File (gpx)

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Marathon Route Page 1: Start to Nr Mile 7	E Main Street looking west.	Typical view on E Main going west approaching the next turn (right) onto Holtzman	Closer view of the turn to Holtzman.	Holtzman, looking north.	The turn (left) on Bryden. The Alum Creek Trail runs on the right through this park.	Bryden, looking west. The route spend a while on this road.	Typical view on Bryden going west.
Bryden, going west, at Miller. Near mile mark 8.	Farther west along Bryden. The route rises up somewhat.	Farther along on Bryden, approaching I-71	Bryden at Parsons / I-71. Near mile mark 9.	On the other side of the freeway, the road turns into E Town St. Still going west.	Farther along on Town St.	Town St, approaching the turn to S Third (in the distance ahead.) Approaching the 10 mile mark.	A closer view. Town St dead ends ahead and the turn (left) is onto S Third St.
Closer view of the turn to S Third.	Typical view on Third St going south.	Third St approaching the cross of I-70 and entry into German Village	The view on Third from the I-71 bridge.	Third St going south near mile mark 11.	S Third at Whittier, approaching the turn at Reinhard.	The turn (left) at Reinhard. The route loops around Schiller Park.	On Reinhard looking east at S Third: the route enters from left and turns straight ahead.
On Reinhard going west.	Reinhard, approaching the turn to Jaeger (right)	Jaeger going south. The park is to the right.	On Jaeger, approaching the turn to Deshler (right)	Deschler, going east.	Deschler, approaching High St and the next turn (right)	High St looking north approaching the 12 mile mark. The route stays on High St for a little more than five miles.	High St, farther north.
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High St going north, approaching the center of downtown.	High St passes back over I - 70/71. Going north.	High St, near mile mark 13.	High St, going north. Approaching the City Center walkway.	Passing the state capitol building on High St.	Approaching Broad St and the halfway point.	High St at Broad. The starting line is to the left. This is a little past the halfway point of the marathon.	Marathon Route Page 3:  Halfway to nr Mile 18