San Francisco Marathon

The Course – Best Marathon of 2005, by City Sports!
Your tour starts along the famed Embarcadero – at the newly renovated Ferry Building and Food Mart, going west through Fisherman’s Wharf and passing the fishing boat marina. Running just feet from the Bay in Aquatic Park and up Fort Mason hill, spectacular views of the Bay and of the Golden Gate Bridge greet you at the top.

You continue west along the Marina, where the course takes you past private yachts. Then Crissy Field in the Presidio shows off the some of the most beautiful San Francisco coastline with sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean.

You will then run up to the Bridge entrance, enter the road bed and cross the amazing Golden Gate Bridge. The high, reddish beams will tower over your head as thousands overtake the Bridge for the marathon. At the Bridges end, you will exit the roadbed and loop around Vista Point only to return back across the Bridge. Heading southwest, you will continue on through the Presidio, past Baker Beach and through the magnificent Seacliff neighborhood. Turning south you will exit the Presidio running through the Richmond Neighborhood District entering Golden Gate Park. Turning west you will pass serene ponds & the Half Marathon point at Spreckels Lake. Buffalo greet you as you loop around to Martin Luther King Drive and run the length of the park. The new course now takes you around Stow Lake with paddle boats and a waterfall. Continuing through the end of the park, past the Japanese Tea Garden, the De Young Art Museum and the Conservatory of Flowers.

As you continue east exiting the Park, you will enter the famed Haight Ashbury District. Running along Haight Street into the Mission & Potrero Districts and on to the newly developing Mission Bay neighborhood, where you pass SBC Park, the Giants Baseball Stadium. The course ends along the water front under a stretch of palm trees back where it started at the Ferry Building.

Wishing the best of all possible worlds,
Iyengar Yoga Teacher,
tony eason
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