The Seafair Marathon is coming to The KIrkland Highlands this Sunday, June 29th.  The Seafair marathon is coming to the Eastside with 9 miles of the run along the lake.  The race starts at Husky Stadium and will run into Bellevue as far south as Enatai  up through Bridle Trails and Rose Hill, crossing into the Highlands at the overpass at NE 100th ST, down 116th in The Kirkland Highlands and ending  in downtown Bellevue at the Bellevue downtown park.  When the runners come into Kirkland’s Highlands, they will be at mile 18-19. If you look at the link for the official site above, you can check out the route on the map provided.  The race starts at 7 AM on Sunday morning and we should expect to see runners in Kirkland before 9 AM. 

World class runners will be present and it should be pretty exciting to have an important world class marathon running through the neighborhood.  Give a special cheer to the Team in Training members, those runners in purple T-shirts,who are running to raise money for blood borne cancers and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  I participated in a 1/2 marathon for Team in Training in Alaska a few years back and it was a wonderful experience. 

I’m volunteering along Lake Washington Boulevard with other members of the Kirkland Senior Council to be a course marshal, making sure  any issues affecting the runners are attended to.  I’ll be between mile 22 and mile 23, so it ought to be pretty exciting to see some of the top runners coming on by.  I’ll take some photos and post them on this blog.