All courses are flat and fast!  Course follows the Boise River on the greenbelt.  Cool and shady.

Famous Idaho Potato Marathon

Pre-Race Review/ Lineup

The 2021 Famous Idaho Potato Marathon remains scheduled to be held on September 18, with safety measures in place.

The YMCA Famous Idaho Potato Marathon will offer live and virtual events

The 2020 Famous Idaho Potato Marathon, originally in May but postponed to September 19, has been canceled and gone virtual, due to coronavirus concerns.

YMCA's Famous Idaho Potato Marathon is going virtual

Flooding closures on the Boise River Greenbelt forced race route changes in the Famous Idaho Potato Marathon.

Greenbelt closures force Famous Idaho Potato Marathon onto streets, hurt sign-ups

The marathon is a fun full marathon, half marathon, 10K or 5K course along the Boise greenbelt

YMCA Famous Idaho Potato Marathon scheduled for May 21

Course Changed due to high river, still nice!

Great Small Race!  Keep an Eye on the Course!

Needs improvement... but I still recommend it.

Doing a Boise marathon?....Do City of Trees

if you want a quiet marathon in a scenic urban are

Getting bigger means you need split starting times

Beautiful run, but it starts too late in the day

Great course; more potties and water needed

A top-notch marathon from start to finish

NO mile-markers!!  Tables ran out of H2O!!

Great 1/2 marathon course - but lacks for marathon

Nice race but they cheated me out of my potatoes!

Aid Stations Close Down and People Get Lost

Great 1/2 marathon, poor support for full marathon

Beautiful natural course along river walk parkway

Famous Idaho Potato Marathon

Marathon Results