Flying Pig Marathon

Course & Elevation

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).