Toronto's 1st major marathon of the year is underway

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· Posted: May 04, 2025 6:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

The city's region runners are taking implicit Yonge Street and parts of the occidental waterfront Sunday greeting for the Toronto Marathon.

Sunday's lawsuit features a fractional marathon (21.1 km) and afloat marathon (42.2 km) race, which gets underway astatine 7 a.m. Some 13,000 runners are acceptable to instrumentality part, according to the races website. There are besides 5 km and 10 km runs, which are happening successful the Exhibition Place area.

A fig of roads volition beryllium closed for the race, which starts astatine 7 a.m., and goes from Willowdale southbound to Exhibition Place, with the marathon runners looping retired to Humber Bay Shores. 

Most of the mid-town roads are acceptable to reopen by 10 a.m. The closures connected the Lake Shore volition beryllium successful spot until aboriginal afternoon.

Also arsenic a heads up, the contention uses the occidental portion of the Martin Goodman Trail, truthful it mightiness beryllium busier than mean during your regular Sunday stroll oregon motorcycle ride.

The existent people records for the marathon are 2 hours, 15 minutes and 17 seconds for the antheral class and 2 hours, thirty-one minutes and 47 seconds for the females.

And if you're inspired to instrumentality connected a marathon aft seeing the runners today, there's a 2nd large race, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, successful mid-October.