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 2: Nr Mile 7 to Halfway	High St at Broad. The starting line is to the left. This is a little past the halfway point of the marathon.	High St on the north side of Broad St. Near mile mark 14	High St at Spring. The road begins to rise here.	High St, closer view of the crest over I-670	High St tops the freeway and heads into the Short North district.	Farther north on High St.	Typical view on High St, going north, through the Short North.
High St, still going north, approaching the OSU campus.	High St, going through the shopping district south of OSU. Around the 15 mile mark.	The start of the OSU campus (on the left)	High St. farther north.	High St approaching the end of campus at Lane Ave. The route rises continually from here to the next turn.	Getting to the end of the route on High St. Looking north	Approaching the turn (left) to Dodridge.	.The turn to Dodridge (unfortunately somewhat obscured.) Just past mile mark 17.
Dodridge St. This short stretch is obviously one-way to auto traffic going the other way	Dodridge, crossing Neil Ave. going west.	Dodridge, going west, passing over the Olentangy River. The Olentangy Trail passes under the roadway at this point.	Dodridge approaching the cross of Olentangy River Rd.	Crossing Olentangy River Rd. The road turns into Ackerman.	Ackermann going west.	Ackerman, still going west, approaching the 18 mile mark. And the underpass of SR 315	Ackerman from under SR 315. The route rises up here.
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Ackermann approaching the turn at Kenny (right)	The turn at Kenny (left). Around the 18.5 mark.	Marathon Route Page 4: Ackerman at Kenny to OSU