Get psyched up for the race!! Watch Tim Amyx’s recap of 2023’s 112th Annual Dipsea Race. Click Here to watch. Then, join in the debate on whether the Dipsea is really the oldest known foot race in America, dating back to 1880, or the second oldest, after the Boston Marathon, starting in 1905. See the Newspaper clipping below from page 9 of the Shuteye News, written in 1918, where they are talking about the Dipsea Race with the first race being organized on a trail back in 1880 in what was to soon become Mill Valley by “old man Grant.”