Purdue Boilermaker Half Marathon & 5K

Once on McCormick Road, the course starts a gradual uphill that lasts over the next few miles, past the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex and Happy Hollow Park for a long, clockwise loop around West Lafayette. Around the mile 4 and 5 markers, the course starts heading downhill again as it brings runners into town, and then turns left onto Fowler Avenue for the stretch that brings them across the bridge that spans the Wabash River. After they make their way over the bridge, runners make a second clockwise loop, this time around the city of Lafayette, starting with a long straightaway stretch down Union Street. Much of the section of the race that runs around Lafayette is flat and takes runners mostly through residential neighborhood streets, though they’ll also run past Murdoch Park and through Columbian Park, which is home to the Columbian Park Zoo and the Columbian Trail, which runners will make their way along for the stretch of the race that runs through the park. Next, runners follow a westward straightaway along Kossuth Street that’s followed by a pair of quick turns onto Wyandotte Avenue and Lingle Avenue, which brings them back north into downtown Lafayette. There’s a second running over the bridge — which includes a downhill and uphill — and then runners head back onto the Purdue campus for the home stretch of the race, back toward the football stadium for the race finish. The scheduled starting time for the half marathon is 8:00 AM, and runners in the half will need to finish the race within the 4 hour course limit.