San Antonio Marathon - History:
Race History
Diego Vacca, then a staff member of the Downtown Branch YMCA, organized the 1st Las Colonias Marathon in 1975. As the starting gun sounded on that Saturday, May 31st morning 51 runners left the parking lot of Kennedy High School and proceeded through the west side neighborhood of Las Colonias, northwest out 1604 and back finishing at Kennedy High School. Jim Ewing of Brownwood, Texas was the first of 43 finishers with a time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 15 seconds. Leroy Harvey, then a city of San Antonio executive, was the first San Antonio finisher with a time of 2:41:06.
Source: http://www.samarathon.org/history.htm
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