Parking: Expo parking is available at Cobo’s garage and rooftop parking venue as well as at pay spaces on downtown streets. It’s also the spot for runners to pick up their race packets. Exhibitors are showing and selling the latest in running apparel, footwear, running tech gizmos and sports-nutrition products. The Expo: Now through Saturday evening, runners and other fitness buffs can visit Cobo Exhibition Center and stroll free through the Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Health & Fitness Expo. The rain may come and go all morning but should diminish by 2 p.m., the Weather Service said. By early Sunday afternoon, the temperature should climb to the lower 70s, about 10 degrees warmer than usual for the date. ► Related: Detroit marathon runners, it might rainįorecasters predict a Saturday night low of 63 degrees, 20 degrees warmer than Detroit’s average for the date, according to the National Weather Service. ► Related: 10 places in Detroit to carbo-load before marathon side," said Doug Kurtis, a former marathon race director and six-time winner of Detroit's marathon. The only "really big" change in the Free Press marathon occurred in 2001, a month after the 9/11 terrorist tragedies, "when we ended up changing the whole course and keeping it all on the U.S. Only lightning would cause a “change in the race status, and we would immediately communicate that,” Bennage said. Umbrella, anyone? Still, the unseasonably warm temperatures should help. Half Marathon - spectators can expect to see more caps, more rain jackets and not as many pairs of sunglasses. ► Related: Driving downtown for marathon, 5K? Read thisīut on Sunday, when thousands of determined runners are to flood Fort Street west of Cass Avenue for the big 7 a.m. ► Detroit marathon 2016: Everything you need to know They include Saturday’s shorter events – the American Home Fitness 5K and the Meijer Kids Fun Run (.85 mile) – which should take place under partly sunny skies. Organizers expect more than 26,000 participants in all events. “Currently, it’s all systems go,” Bennage said. Sunday – along with the Priority Health International Half Marathon and the marathon relay – despite a prediction of light rain starting at 8 a.m.ĭetroit’s signature 26.2-mile race has never been canceled due to weather, Executive Race Director Barbara Bennage said Friday. The 39th annual Detroit Free Press/Talmer Bank Marathon is scheduled to start at 7 a.m. View Gallery: Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Health & Fitness Expo
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