This week is the first run for the 2017 Portland Marathon Clinic. These are free runs open to anyone: you don’t need to be enrolled in the Clinic’s seminars, registered for the Portland Marathon, or even have plans to run any fall marathon! Nope – anyone and everyone looking for a group long run is welcome. The run starts at 8a on Saturday, April 8 from Mountain Hardwear at 722 SW Taylor (at SW Broadway and…
This is the first in an occasional series where Run Oregon interviews local race and event directors. Our subject today is Mr. Lester Smith, Event Director of the Portland Marathon. Questions and answers have been edited for context and brevity. Q (Tung Yin/Run Oregon): What is your day job when you are not working on the Portland Marathon? A (Les Smith): I’m one of the founding partners at the law firm Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson,…
Road Runner Sports in NW Portland is the start/finish for this Saturday’s PMC run. The guided routes offered are of 16 and 19 miles. PMC notes on their facebook page that the parking structure at the Uptown Center only allows for 2-hour parking and they will ticket you if you overstay your welcome! You can find a 4-hour meter, a pay surface lot, or hunt down a free spot and add a warm-up walk to…
The Portland Marathon Clinic is up to 16 and 18 miles this week on their run from Mountain Hardwear downtown. There will be two aid stations on the course, which starts out by crossing to the East Side on the Steel Bridge and then more or less following the marathon course backwards. 16-milers will turn back at the St. John’s Bridge and those going 18 will continue another mile on the path heading east.…
Join the Portland Marathon Clinic this Saturday, July 9, for an 15, 16 or 18-mile run starting from their sponsor Road Runner Sports’ Tualatin location! The run starts out through Tualatin’s neighborhoods to the east of I-5, circling past Legacy’s Meridian Park campus and Atfalati Park. The route crosses I-5 on SW Sagert and then sticks to neighborhoods for the first 6.5 miles, then through some light commercial areas north of Tualatin-Sherwood Road. The 15-milers will turn…
Join the Portland Marathon Clinic this Saturday, July 2, for a run of 14 or 16 miles, starting from their sponsor Road Runner Sports’ NW 23rd Place location! The course was not posted as of June 30, so you will have to be in for a surprise. My bet is that you will either run the waterfront or Terwilliger. Either way, bring your own hydration and nutrition, dress for the weather, and remember sunscreen. When: Saturday, July 2, 2016…
Join the Portland Marathon Clinic this Saturday, June 25, for an 13, 15 or 16- mile run starting from their sponsor ClubSport location! This week’s route is a real treat. You will start out running north on Lower Boones Ferry before zipping over to the Fanno Creek Trail at the Tigard Library via SW Durham and SW 79th Ave. From there, you will run on the trail, including the new section north of George Morlan Plumbing.
The Portland Marathon Clinic is running 12, 14 & 16 miles from Mountain Hardwear in downtown Portland this Saturday. You can join them – anyone can! It’s free and extremely fun. It’s also a great way to get your long run in with some other awesome people. Click here to see the course for this week’s run. Your route this weekend is a nice out and back which will run through the Park Blocks to…
Join the Portland Marathon Clinic this Saturday, June 11, for a 12, 13, or 15-mile run starting from their sponsor Road Runner Sports’ Tualatin location. All runners will start out on the same loop, which heads away from the freeway and into Tualatin’s residential neighborhoods. After passing Legacy Meridian Park Hospital and Ibach Park, you’ll cross I-5 on SW Sagert St. and then head south on your Tualatin tour. From there you’ll head north. The 12-milers will…
Join the Portland Marathon Clinic this Saturday, May 7, for a 10, 12 or 13 mile run starting from their sponsor ClubSport location. Parking is available in the parking lot of the Tualatin Foursquare Church just across the street.
