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 4: Ackerman at Kenny to OSU	Woody Hayes approaching Neil Ave. The Shoe it to the right.	Passing by the Shoe going east on Woody Hayes Dr.	Woody Hayes, crossing Neil, turns into Woodruff and goes from divided road to single	Woodruff going east.	Woodruff, farther east.	At the turn (right) onto College. This is around the 23 mile mark.	College Ave, going south.
College winds around a bit	Still on College Ave going south.	College, approaching the turn at 12th Street (right)	The turn (right) onto 12th ave	Closer view of the turn onto 12th ave - going west.	On 12th Ave farther along.	Approaching the turn (left) onto Neil Ave.	The turn south on Neil.
Going south on Neil Ave. The route spends some time on this road going through VIctorian village.	Farther south on Neil Ave.	Neil Ave, in the village.	At the turn (left) onto Buttles, going east.	Looking east on Buttles from Neil Ave. This is near mile mark 25.	On Buttles, going east, that's Goodale Park to the left.	On Buttles, approaching the turn to Park (left)	On Park, going south
Still on Park going south.	Park, crossing Goodale.	Still on park, entering the Arena District and nearing mile mark 26	There is this short rise, still on Park	Park approaching the last turn (right) onto Nationwide.	The last turn (right) onto Nationwide.	A closer view of the turn looking west on Nationwide. The route drops down here.	Farther along Nationwide, near the finish line.
Farther west on Nationwide. The finish line is just ahead.	Around the finish line. Looking west on Nationwide towards Neil Ave