Pittsburgh marathon detours6/16/2023 ![]() Hello hills! Course map below.Įlevation chart, showing elevation climbs up to 985 ft. We enter the city and it’s a pleasant surprise. There are varying reports as to the exact number but according to Popular Pittsburgh, there are almost 2,000 bridges in the area! More bridges than Venice, Italy! What? Really? Check out this article HERE to see some of those amazing bridges and the history behind them. Pittsburgh, we came to find out is the City of Bridges. ![]() We registered a month in advance because Pittsburgh is in PA and that’s a new state for us. I saw that Pittsburg was on May 3rd, pulled up google maps and discovered that it’s only 4.5 hours from my new home. Then we looked at the marathon calendar and tossed out a couple options. Julie said, “Hey, I’d really like to run a marathon at the end of April or beginning of May.” I said, “If you wait til the beginning of May, I’ll go with you”. On that note, we picked the Pittsburgh Marathon the way that we pick most of our races. And that makes things interesting in a fun and adventurous way. Some of those places weren’t exactly on my “must visit” list. Regardless, I’m on a journey that is taking me places. ![]() Maybe and most probably, I decided that if I ran more marathons, I could run fewer of those unsupported, boring, long runs. Maybe my kids were driving me crazy and I decided to run more and drink less to blow off steam. Maybe I woke up one day and decided there were so many great marathons and too little time to run them. Maybe it was the fact that I would train so hard for ONE marathon a year and then never get the desired result due to injury, training fatigue, life, stress or weather. In fact, I would have thought them to be the “crazy” one. If someone had told me 2 years ago that I would be running more than one or two marathons a year, I wouldn’t have believed them. It lists options for those coming in from Downtown Pittsburgh, Interstate 279 North and both the east and west lanes of Interstate 376.I’m not really sure how I became this “crazy” marathon runner who’s current goal is to run a marathon in each of the 50 states. The University of Pittsburgh has created a guide of alternate routes for people coming to commencement. and will be free for graduates and their guests. University-owned garages will be open to the public at 8 a.m.
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