It means each of the top races are wide open. Last year's top female finisher Sidney Hirsch from Omaha, Nebraska, who posted a 2:59.57, also is not back along with two-time half-marathon overall winner Nick French from Nashville.

Wietecha is not signed up for the 2023 race nor is last year's winner, Ryan Martin, a Tampa, Florida, resident who finished in 2 hours, 41 minutes and 25 seconds. Seven-time Rock 'n' Roll Nashville Marathon winner Scott Wietecha from Hendersonville chose not to run in 2021 because he had not trained for a fall race and did not return in 2002. The starting line for both races is at 8th Avenue and Broadway and the finish line is at Nissan Stadium. The half-marathon course is the same as last year. Instead, however, of coming out of that area on Great Circle Road, which is an incline, the new course runs along the Cumberland River Greenway and takes that flat trek to the Nashville Sounds' First Horizon Stadium and then heads downhill toward East Nashville.Ī second loop through Shelby Park isn't necessary with the added distance in Metro Center. HOW THEY TRAINED: Training session for Nashville marathon is Saturday on the steps of the CapitolĪ total of 500 feet of elevation was removed by rerouting the start of the second half of the marathon back to Metro Center. NEW MARATHON COURSE: Revamped Nashville Rock 'n' Roll Marathon course will be flatter and fasterĢ022 WINNER: Ryan Martin wins 2022 Nashville St. Much of the elevation throughout the course has been eliminated along with the monotony many runners said they experienced by having to run twice through Shelby Bottoms Park near the end. Here is what you need to know about the 2023 event: New courseĪfter tweaking the 26.2-mile downtown marathon course each year since it returned in 2021, officials made significant and more permanent changes this year.

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