Wilderness Road Marathon and Half Marathon

The Wilderness Road Marathon and Half Marathon is one of a kind race along the Historic Wilderness Road.  This race will take you back in time to the establishment of Fort Logan and the nation's expansion west of the Alleghany Mountains.  Runners will follow in the footsteps of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky and William Whitley, the owner of the first brick house west of the Alleghany Mountains.  William Whitley shook the world when he ran all of the horse races on his property counter clockwise.  This was in the direct opposition the British custom of racing horses clockwise.  Now in North America all Nascar, track and field and horse racing, etc. run their races counter clockwise.  Proceeds from the event will benefit the William Whitley House Endowment.  The out and back course will start and finish in downtown Stanford, KY.  Join us in celebrating Stanford's 250th Anniversary at this Inaugural event and the roll it played along the Wilderness Road.  The races will be capped at 250 runners total.