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The Austin Marathon, officially the Ascension Seton Austin Marathon, is a road marathon through downtown Austin, Texas, held on a Sunday in February over Presidents' Day weekend and run since 1992. The next edition is on 14 February 2027, with the marathon and half marathon starting together at 7:00 a.m. on Congress Avenue at 2nd Street; a 5K runs on the same morning. The route passes South Congress, Zilker Park and the Texas State Capitol, and the organisers describe it as rolling hills through Austin's neighbourhoods, with a steady climb up South Congress Avenue in the first three miles. The marathon and half marathon share the course through mile 12, then the half marathon turns south to its finish while the marathon heads east and turns north on Guadalupe Street through the University of Texas campus. Both finish on Congress Avenue in front of the Capitol. The course has 22 aid stations, and the marathon has a seven-hour limit, a 16-minute-per-mile pace. The race is a Boston Marathon qualifier. Motorola founded it in 1992, and in 2026 more than 30,000 people took part across the three distances. Joseph Whelan and Kellyn Taylor set the current course records that year, 2:13:18 and 2:33:28.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
Mid-February in Austin averages a daytime high of about 19°C and a low of about 8°C, with measurable rain on roughly one day in four.
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The modern Austin Marathon grew out of a race first held in 1992 and sponsored and directed by Motorola, which remained title sponsor for fifteen years. Some 605 runners registered for that first marathon. Earlier Austin marathons from the 1980s were organised by other groups and do not share its history.
The marathon used 19 different routes in its first 20 years. From 1992 to 1993 it started at the Motorola plant in Oak Hill and ran mostly south of the Colorado River; in 1994 the start moved north to the Arboretum area, with the finish at Auditorium Shores. The course today is a downtown loop, and a revised second half introduced in 2018 sends marathoners up Guadalupe Street through the University of Texas campus to the finish at the Capitol.
In February 2026 Joseph Whelan won the men's race in a course-record 2:13:18, his third Austin Marathon title, and Kellyn Taylor won the women's race in a course-record 2:33:28. Elisha Barno was second in the men's race in 2:14:26.
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Joseph Whelan (2026)
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