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The Flying Pig Marathon is a road marathon in Cincinnati, Ohio, run on the first Sunday of May as the centrepiece of a three-day weekend that also includes a half marathon, a 10K and a 5K. Pig Works organises it. The marathon starts at 6:30 am on Rosa Parks Street in downtown Cincinnati and finishes on Mehring Way beside the Ohio River. The course crosses the river into northern Kentucky through Covington and Newport, returns to Ohio and runs east through Mariemont, Fairfax and Columbia Township, then back towards the river, with the last six miles along the Ohio. The organisers' CEO has said the course has some hills early on. The course closes at a continuous pace of 16 minutes per mile. The first Flying Pig Marathon was run in 1999 with about 6,200 participants and finished at Union Terminal, before the finish moved to its current riverfront setting. The 2026 race was the 28th annual and the weekend drew a record 45,197 registrations. The course records are 2:17:40 for men (Zach Kreft, 2026) and 2:34:35 for women (Tatyana Pozdnyakova, 2002).
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
Early May in Cincinnati is mild: average highs are around 24°C and lows around 12°C, with rain on roughly 13 days of the month.
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The first Flying Pig Marathon was held on 9 May 1999 with about 6,200 participants. In that first year runners finished at Union Terminal, and the course has since moved its finish to the riverfront. One participant from that first race later ran every Pig for at least 14 editions.
Cecil Franke set the Flying Pig course record in 2006, only his second marathon. It stood for 20 years until Zach Kreft of Sunbury, Ohio won the 2026 race in 2:17:40, more than two and a half minutes faster. The women's record, 2:34:35 by Tatyana Pozdnyakova, dates from 2002.
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Zach Kreft (2026)
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