Set for its 12th annual running this year along the streets of this small city just north of Janesville and located near the southern edge of Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine State Forest, this half marathon and relay offers gently rolling hills as well as a small-town, closely-knit community feel, evidenced by the hundreds of local volunteers who turn out for the race each year.
Whitewater, a city of just over 14,000 in Wisconsin’s southeastern corner, lies about an hour and a half from Chicago and takes its name from the white sand early settlers saw at the bottom of the pair of creeks that meet on the spot where it was founded, way back in the 1830s.
Today, the city is home to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the Whitewater Nature Preserve, both of which you’ll run through or past during the race.
