Savannah Women’s Half Marathon & 5k

Once they reach downtown, they’ll turn left and head west along Bryan Street and past the first two of 10 of Savannah’s historic squares, which were laid out when the city was designed on a grid back in 1733. Most of them — like Ellis and Johnson squares, which runners pass near the mile 1 marker — are named for historic people and events in Georgia’s history. After making their way around Franklin Square, runners head south and east along the flat Savannah streets for a stretch that takes them past three historic squares, nearly all of which are lined with trees draped in Spanish moss as well as gorgeous historic homes and buildings, many of which date back centuries. Runners follow Whitaker Street all the way back south in the direction of Forsyth Park and turn left on Duffy Street. Here, the race takes runners from the historic district and into the city’s Ardsley Park neighborhoods, and the race becomes almost an architecture tour of Savannah. There’s a gentle downhill between miles 5 and 6 and then a section that takes runners out and back to two turnabouts, almost like the spokes of a wheel, and then into the 80-acre Daffin Park.