Thousands of runners and walkers from all over the world are in Eugene this weekend for the fourth annual Eugene Marathon. Registration and packet pick-up is at the Eugene Hilton.
8,000 runners and walkers are expected to participate in the three races this year. That's 2,000 more people than last year.
Participants packed the Hilton when registration opened at 1 pm. Friday. Runners had to practice some patience when they picked up their race bibs and shirts.
KVAL News talked to one woman from Alberta, Canada. She's running her first marathon ever and she's forty-eight years old.
"My husband ran this marathon," Barb Miller-Hodges said. "I figured if he could do it then I could do it. I just got tired of being a spectator at the finish line."
Miller-Hodges said the hardest part was training in the cold Calgary winter.
The race winds through Southeast Eugene, Springfield and the River Bank Trail. Expect heavy traffic delays and road closures between 6:30am-2pm on Sunday.
The 5K is Saturday. That course runs from EWEB around Skinners Butte.
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