{"id":72171,"date":"2025-12-02T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72171\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:04:12","slug":"several-roads-will-be-closed-for-inaugural-san-antonio-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72171\/","title":{"rendered":"Several roads will be closed for inaugural San Antonio Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first-ever San Antonio Marathon takes place this weekend, Dec. 5 through Dec. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hosted by San Antonio Sports, the new marathon replaces the one put on by the International Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Running Series, which held its final event in San Antonio last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The marathon and half marathon starts at 7:15 a.m. Sunday at Main Plaza and finishes at Hemisfair. There will also be a Friday night 5K on Dec. 5 starting at 7 p.m., which starts and finishes at Hemisfair.<\/p>\n

Several roads will be closed during the marathon and half-marathon, which runs through downtown on Sunday. There will be closures on Broadway, Losoya Street and McAllister Freeway or U.S. Highway 281.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be limited street access on Commerce Street and Market Street between Bowie Street and Alamo Street,\u201d said Chief William McManus of the San Antonio Police Department at a press conference on Monday. \u201cThe northbound and southbound Commerce Street exits off IH 37 will close at 4 a.m. on the day of the marathon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a full list of street closures on the San Antonio Marathon\u2019s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Antonio Sports CEO Jenny Carnes says the marathon tells the story of San Antonio along its route through neighborhoods that previous marathons in the city haven\u2019t explored. \u201c[The San Antonio Marathon] tells the story about how far we\u2019ve come to create this event, to keep this event locally owned and operated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"\"San Antonio Sports CEO Jenny Carnes speaks at a press conference ahead of the inaugural San Antonio Marathon taking place this weekend at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on Monday. Credit: Amber Esparza \/ San Antonio Report<\/p>\n

The sports organization took over the marathon when the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Series\u2019 contract expired<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organizers from Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll are also involved in the San Antonio Marathon, including Josh Furlow, founder and CEO of the Trust Group, a partner in organizing the new marathon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Furlow was formerly the CEO of the Competitor Group, which organized Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll, before he sold it to the IRONMAN Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The San Antonio Marathon\u2019s expo from Friday, Dec. 5 to Saturday, Dec. 6 followsThe Running Event\u2019s expo, which is scheduled from Dec. 2 to Dec. 4 at the Henry B. Gonz\u00e1lez Convention Center. The new marathon\u2019s expo will showcase fitness, wellness and community partners local to the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe training is done and now it\u2019s time to celebrate,\u201d said Santino Corrales of the Downtown Run Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His running club is one of many that signed up to participate in the San Antonio Marathon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s race week. We want runners of all backgrounds and experience levels to know that you\u2019re inspiring more people than you realize,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first-ever San Antonio Marathon takes place this weekend, Dec. 5 through Dec. 7.\u00a0 Hosted by San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36110,36111,36112,82,84,8166,83,36113,30790,632,92,3028,3219],"class_list":["post-72171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-chief-william-mcmanus","tag-jenny-carnes","tag-rock-n-roll-marathon","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-marathon","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-rock-n-roll-marathon","tag-san-antonio-sports","tag-sapd","tag-top-story","tag-typedaily","tag-wc-less-than-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}