Runners get a chance to trek through Oregon’s “Emerald City” at the annual Eugene Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K. The race takes participants through, around and past several of the city’s urban parks, the campus of the University of Oregon and across the Willamette River, which winds its way through the heart of the city.
The race is open to both runners and walkers. It also includes a kids marathon, in which children who’ve completed 25.2 miles over the weeks leading up to the race will get to run the final mile of their marathon in downtown Eugene.