Runners start the loop course for the Owensboro Memorial Day Half Marathon on the campus of Kentucky Wesleyan College, a 150-year-old liberal arts college that lies just south of the city’s downtown. From there, runners head out on a counter-clockwise loop route that takes them southward through the city out into the rolling rural areas along Highway 431, a stretch that’s mostly flat for the first few miles.
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