From the race start and finish line a block away from St. Paul’s Mears Park, runners follow a course for the Securian Winter Run Half Marathon that unfolds mostly along Shepard Road and parallel to the series of parks that lie along the banks of the Mississippi River here in St. Paul. The course makes a loop around Rice Park in the first mile, but runners don’t make the loop again on the return route back to the finish.
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