Chevron Houston Marathon

The Chevron Houston Marathon is a point-to-point course through central Houston. It starts downtown near Daikin Park, the ballpark formerly called Minute Maid Park, and finishes at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The route passes through the Houston Heights, Rice University, Hermann Park, Uptown and Memorial Park before returning downtown along Allen Parkway. The course is flat and USATF-certified, and it is a common Boston qualifier. The race is held in mid-January. The marathon and the half marathon run on the same morning, and entries across the two are capped at about 27,000. Both races have carried a World Athletics Gold Label since 2020. Keira D'Amato set the women's course record of 2:19:12 in 2022. It was the American record at the time. The first race was held on December 30, 1972, with 113 starters. The Houston Marathon Committee, a nonprofit formed that year, still organizes it. Houston hosted the women's U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in 1992 and the combined men's and women's trials in 2012. In 2007, a satellite edition was run on the same day in Fallujah, Iraq.