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Williams Route 66 Marathon

08:008:00 AM Tulsa
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
Boston Avenue Methodist Church. Photograph by David Brossard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The course

The marathon starts in downtown Tulsa, runs through the city's neighborhoods and the University of Tulsa campus, and is a USATF certified Boston qualifier.

The course in short 3 lines
  • Art Deco downtown, then Tulsa's neighborhoodsDowntown start, neighborhood block parties, a certified Boston qualifier.
  • The course closes at 16:30 a mile16:30 a mile, 6.5 hours, and the sidewalk if you fall behind.
  • The Center of the Universe detourAn optional 0.3 mile detour to a brick circle where your voice echoes.
Course notes 3 short reads on the course
Whole courseLandmarkArt Deco downtown, then Tulsa's neighborhoodsDowntown start, neighborhood block parties, a certified Boston qualifier.

The organiser starts the marathon in downtown Tulsa, which it describes as home of the largest concentration of Art Deco architecture outside of Miami, and then takes runners through the city’s neighborhoods and across the campus of the University of Tulsa. Neighborhoods host block parties along the course. The course is USATF certified and a Boston qualifier.

The half marathon runs with the marathon until around mile 11, then heads to the finish at Guthrie Green while the marathoners carry on.

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Whole courseConditionsThe course closes at 16:30 a mile16:30 a mile, 6.5 hours, and the sidewalk if you fall behind.

The marathon, half marathon and marathon relay all start together at 8 am on Sunday. The organiser gives a maximum pace of 16:30 per mile and a 6.5 hour official time limit. Runners slower than that may be asked by the Tulsa Police Department to move to the sidewalk so streets can reopen, and the drink and medical stations close on the same 6.5 hour limit.

The timing system itself stays open for 7.5 hours, but the course closes at 16:30 a mile counted from when the last participant starts.

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Whole courseLandmarkThe Center of the Universe detourAn optional 0.3 mile detour to a brick circle where your voice echoes.

The organiser offers the Center of the Universe Detour to full marathon runners only. It adds 0.3 mile to the run, needs no pre-registration and can be decided on the day. The spot is a brick circle: a runner who stands in the middle and talks hears an echo that people outside the circle do not. Those who take the detour receive an inlaid coin and a beer, and the organiser calls the extra distance the World’s Shortest Ultramarathon.

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Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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5 gels for Tulsa, plus 1 spare

Finish

One every 40 minutes, by the clock:

  1. km 7mile 4.4
  2. km 14.1mile 8.7
  3. km 21.1mile 13.1
  4. km 28.1mile 17.5
  5. km 35.2mile 21.8

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

Order now to test one on your last long run.

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Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed

Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
42.2 km26.2 mi
cut-off
6:30 h

Race week

Timetable

Friday 20 November Expo

  1. 11:0011:00 AM–19:007:00 PM

    Health and Fitness Expo and packet pickup Convention center, 100 Civic Center. Every participant picks up a packet at the expo. Race-day pickup is offered for an extra fee.

Saturday 21 November Expo

  1. 09:009:00 AM–18:006:00 PM

    Health and Fitness Expo and packet pickup Convention center, 100 Civic Center

Sunday 22 November Race day

  1. 08:008:00 AM

    Marathon start The half marathon and the marathon relay start at the same time.

  2. Time not published

    Course closing pace A pace of 16:30 per mile; the official time limit is 6.5 hours. Slower runners may be asked to move to the sidewalk, and aid stations close on the same limit. The timing system stays open for 7.5 hours. 6:30 limit: 9:14/km for 42.195 km6:30 limit: 14:52/mi for 26.2 mi

Times as published by the organiser, in Tulsa time, checked .

Add to calendar .ics file, times in Tulsa time

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

route66marathon.com: this address now sends you somewhere else, so it is not linked.

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

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