Olympic Marathon Trials

For the first time, the men's and women's Olympic Trails Marathon will take place on the same day and place Saturday in Houston, Texas. The top three men and three women will represent the US in the marathon at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The men will start first at 8 a.m. The women's start will be fifteen minutes later at 8:15 a.m. The marathon course starts and finishes in downtown Houston in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center. They will run on a 2.2 mile inner loop through downtown Houston and then run an outer 8 mile loop to finish the marathon.

There won't be a live video feed from the race unlike the ING New York City Marathon. The marathon will be tape-delayed and shown later in the afternoon at 3 p.m. (EST) on NBC. I will be watching twitter and hopefully there will be updates there.

Looking forward to finding out which men and women will be representing the United States in the marathon for the upcoming Olympics.