MORE:\u00a0City starts cleanup of illegal dumping site at Pennypack Park in Northeast Philly<\/a><\/p>\n The half marathon take runners down the Benjamin Franklin<\/a> Parkway, through Center City on long stretches of Market and Arch streets, and out to East Falls<\/a> and back via Martin Luther King Drive. The finish line is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 7K follows the same course, but runners veer off to finish at the art museum instead of continuing along MLK Drive.<\/p>\n The Love Run also\u00a0coincides with the start of seasonal weekend closures on MLK Drive. Beginning this weekend, MLK Drive is closed from Saturdays at 7 a.m. to Mondays at 7 a.m. until the fall.\u00a0Pedestrians and cyclists still will have access to a portion of the MLK Drive during the Love Run, city officials said.<\/p>\n More information about the Love Run’s weekend activities can be found on its\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Road closures and parking restrictions<\/p>\n Road closures will start taking effect early Sunday morning ahead of the race. Roads in Center City are expected to be reopened by 11 a.m. The road closures specific to the half marathon course will lifted around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n Temporary “No Parking” signs will be posted along closed roads between 4 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday<\/p>\n \nThe following roads will be closed beginning at 3 a.m.:<\/p>\n \u2022 Benjamin Franklin Parkway from 22nd Street to Eakins Oval The following roads will be closed beginning at 6:45 a.m.:<\/p>\n \u2022 Benjamin Franklin Parkway from 16th Street to Eakins Oval The route for the Love Run half marathon loops through Center City, Old City and Fairmount Park on Sunday. The 7K veers off before MLK Drive to end at the art museum<\/p>\n SEPTA Detours <\/p>\n \nDetours can be expected through Center City and Old City<\/a> during the race. Specific route changes and updates can be found online<\/a>. Bus routes 38 and 43 will be detoured on Sunday from 6 a.m. to\u00a0 2 p.m.\n<\/p>\n \nThe following routes will be detoured from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.\n<\/p>\n \u2022 2, 4, 7, 16, 17, 23, 27, 31, 32, 33, 38, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 61, 124 and 125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An estimated 15,000 runners are expected to race Sunday in the Saucony Love Run, which returns for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1157,68089,69,71,70,4081,2618,2155],"class_list":["post-149112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city","tag-love-run","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-road-closures","tag-septa","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Eakins Oval from Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
\u2022 MLK Drive from Eakins Oval to Falls Bridg
\u2022 Kelly Drive from Eakins Oval to Fairmount Avenue<\/p>\n
\u2022 16th Street from Benjamin Franklin Parkway to John F. Kennedy Blvd.
\u2022 John F. Kennedy Blvd. from 16th to 20th streets
\u2022 20th Street from John F. Kennedy Blvd. to Market Street
\u2022 Market Street from 20th to 15th streets
\u2022 Penn Square to Juniper Street
\u2022 Juniper to Market streets
\u2022 Market Street from Juniper to Sixth streets
\u2022 Sixth Street from Market to Arch streets
\u2022 Arch Street from Sixth Street to Benjamin Franklin Parkway
\u2022 Lansdowne Drive to Sweet Briar Drive
\u2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to Falls Bridge
\u2022 Black Road to Avenue of the Republic
\u2022 Avenue of the Republic to Memorial Hill Drive
\u2022 Memorial Hill Drive to S. Concourse Drive![\"Love](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot_2026-03-26_at_10.39.34AM.width-704.png\")
Provided Image\/Love Run<\/p>\n