Set for its 16th annual running, Sugar Land’s Memorial Hermann USA Fit Marathon, Half Marathon & 5K typically sees more than 1,000 runners and walkers cross the finish line in all three races combined, including several hundred runners each year in the half marathon alone.
The race is the signature running event for USA Fit, a nationwide fitness and running training organization that offers coaching and group training in 19 states and the District of Columbia (as well as Canada), and takes runners on an out-and-back route that starts and finishes on the Sugar Land campus of the University of Houston, whose main campus is located closer to downtown Houston, just a short drive from Sugar Land.
Known perhaps most famously to those outside Texas as the home district for embattled former U.S. Congressman Tom DeLay, the city of Sugar Land has been a booming suburb of the Houston area over the past decade, and was named one of the nation’s best cities to live in by CNN/Money and Money Magazine back in 2006.
