Known as the “gateway to the wine country” to the legions of tourists who flock to sample the wines and visit the vineyards of Northern California every year, this small town that lies just over an hour’s drive north of San Francisco plays host this year to the 10th annual Windsor Run and Wine Half Marathon, 10K & 5K race (known as the Windsor Green Half Marathon through 2018).
As the name of the race gives away, the 13.1-mile course for the race starts and finishes on the Windsor Green, a 4 1/2-acre park near the center of town that lies in the heart of what is known locally as Windsor’s “Old Downtown,” and features a historical timeline walk as well as a grove of native valley and blue oaks that are more than two centuries old.
From the park area on Windsor Green, runners in the half marathon head out and follow what is basically a clockwise loop route out of the town center and out into the rural countryside to the south and west of town.
