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Santa Fe Half Marathon #5 of 12 halves for 2019

Santa Fe Half Marathon #5 of 12 halves for 2019

I lucked out finding this race! There is a local race organization in my town called Runfit. They have had only two half marathons as long as I can remember. This year they added another one called Santa Fe Half Marathon.

The race starts at 7:30 am in Fort Marcy Park. We ran along the old Taos High Way and crossed over a bridge to a frontage road. The race runs through residential roads and then on the Spanish Trail (high way).

They did not have a race course map up on their website for this race, so I had no idea if it was flat or hilly until I started the race. It was really hilly! Santa Fe is one of those towns, that depending on where you are in town it can be flat or hilly.

The weather was nice, mid 50’s degrees Fahrenheit. It wasn’t too windy either. Overall it was great racing conditions.

Most of the race was on pavement. Some parts of the roads we ran on were dirt, but it was compacted dirt and not hard to run on.

Runfit has a challenge where if you run both their half marathons ( or this year three half marathons) you get a special medal for doing two of the three and another medal if you do three out of three. This half marathon was their second one for the year. I got the medal for the race and a medal for completing the first two half marathons of 2019.

I wasn’t really training for a hilling course so my time wasn’t the greatest, but I did enjoy the race! My time was 2:25:47 6th in my age group.

I would do this race again, but train for those huge hills! This race marks #5 out of 12 halves that I am running in 2019.