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chatter among the local running community has long held out hope for a Syracuse marathon, a race that traverses 26.2 miles of Onondaga County’s hills and dales. That doesn’t appear likely any time soon since the local race calendar has already filled up with few open weekends to spare. But don’t despair; that wealth of weekend warriorship got the Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs thinking that a new race series might be in order. So with a partnership linking Parks with Fleet Feet Sports and The New Times, five races are now under the Syrathon 2009 banner. And the funny thing is, when totaled, they add up to 26.1 miles.
“This series really encourages people to get running and go to all the different neighborhoods for the races,” says Sue Straub, the race director of the final event in the series, the five-mile Eastwood Park-to-Park Autumn Run. “If you do them all, you’ve done a marathon, just about. That was a surprise to find out it’s just over 26 miles.”