The first race was held on March 25, 2007, under the original sponsor-branded name ING Georgia Marathon.

[9] The men's marathon trials saw Galen Rupp win in a time of 2:09:20, followed by Jacob Riley and 43-year-old Abdi Abdirahman.

After two hours of racing, the pack was led by Aliphine Tuliamuk, who pulled away to win with a time of 2:27:23.

Sally Kipyego finished third, edging out Des Linden and Laura Thweatt to make the team.

[11] The marathon and half marathon wereheld Sunday and utilise the oval, road course, parking lots, campgrounds, and perimeter roads of the 840 acre complex, while the 5000 metre run will be held on Saturday inside the 1.5 mile oval grounds.

The 2019 course starts at ends at Centennial Olympic Park and, over 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km) of city roads, includes many landmarks, such as Georgia State University, Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Edgewood Avenue, Inman Park, Little Five Points, Virginia–Highland, Piedmont Park, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Morris Brown College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, 1996 Olympic rings, Georgia State Stadium, Grant Park and Zoo Atlanta, Cheney Stadium, Georgia State Capitol, and Oakland Cemetery.

The course started in the parking lot behind the Jimmie Johnson Grandstand (had been known as the Winners before June 2020; named for the 2019 Boston Marathon celebrity finisher) on Mount Pleasant Road.

From Lower Woolsey, runners jut right into the Weaver parking lot where the course splits on the second and third laps.

The first running of what is now the Invesco QQQ Half Marathon was in 1963 at the North Fulton Golf Course, making it the oldest in the Southeast.

[14] The Atlanta Track Club initially cancelled the Atlanta Half Marathon in April as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Peachtree Road Race was to have taken the Invesco QQQ Half Marathon date.

From 1964 until 1980, the race had its beginning, middle, and end at The Westminster Schools campus, twice running a loop up Nancy Creek Road.

In 1981, the race was moved to downtown Atlanta, and the date changed to Thanksgiving in late November.

[15] Despite the cancellation of the Invesco Half Marathon and AJC Peachtree Road Race in 2020, the PNC 10 Miler was still held and renamed the PNC 10 Miler: Extreme Hill Edition, at Michelin Raceway, 50 miles (80 kilometres) from Atlantic Station, as a multiple-loop race with the shorter race cut to 2.54 miles for logistical reasons of conducting the event on a closed circuit.

When the 10 Miler was added in 2013, the race started at Piedmont Park (16-mile point of the marathon course) and continued to the finish.

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 event was moved to Michelin Raceway and became a three-lap race known as the PNC Atlanta 10 Miler: Extreme Hills Edition because of the circuit's elevation changes.

Runners started in multiple waves, and the circuit was marked with cones to separate the three laps.