Runners follow an out-and-back course for the half marathon, which starts at Parkside Elementary School here in southeastern Illinois and finishes on the school’s track and field complex. In between the start and finish lines, runners head onto the nearby city streets for the race’s first couple of miles, and then out onto the rolling country roads that lie between Lawrenceville and nearby Bridgeport for most of the rest of the race.
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