SEATTLE -- There were lots of sore feet Sunday night as some 11,000 people finished the 42nd Annual Seattle Marathon and Half-Marathon.
Thirty-four-year-old Jesse Williams of Seattle won the 26.2-mile race Sunday. It took Williams 2 hours and 29 minutes to run the course.
34-year-old Trish Steidl of Seattle was the first woman to cross the finish line with a time of three hours three minutes and 40 seconds.
The marathon started and finished at Seattle Center, winding through several Seattle neighborhoods and closing several streets and freeways for hours.
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The full-marathon route headed south on Fifth Avenue; east on I-90 express lanes; made a u-turn to west I-90, exited to S Day Street and moved south on 36th to Lakeside and Lake Washington Boulevard to Seward Park; entered Seward Park and goes counter-clockwise through the park loop and then north on to Lake Washington Boulevard, Lakeside and McGilvra; west on E Galer Street; E Madison Street; north on Lake Washington then onto Interlaken; west on Delmar and Roanoke; south on Boylston and Lakeview; west across the overpass to Eastlake and Roy Street; south on Eastlake; west on Republican; north on Dexter; west on Mercer; south on Fourth Avenue N; west on Republican; and finished at Memorial Stadium.
The half-marathon followed the same route except for the I-90 leg and the leg south to and around Seward Park.
Several freeways were also closed. Streets re-opened around 2:15 p.m.
For more information, including schedule of events, course information and more maps, go to the Seattle Marathon website.
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