This is coming from an avid fan of running. No mater how it is advertised as “An event with thousands of different stories” it only disrupts traffic and people’s schedules to have it go on for hours and hours until it is over. Starting at Yonge and Sheppard in North York and finishing at Exhibition Place, the Half Marathon is the most popular event during Race Weekend. I think that these races have to stop trying to have more and more runners. The Half Marathon course is fast, downhill, and scenic. I heard it is to accommodate more runners. I don’t know why it was so dramatically changed from the course it had in which the runners go around Central Park then down 7th Avenue and turn west at 42nd Street and down the West Side Highway to the Wall Street area. I think that next year or not much more than in another two years the course will be changed even another time. It will go through some obscure streets in lower Manhattan and it is really odd that it starts in Brooklyn never mind that the FDR drive has to be closed for hours for this event.

In 2023 it lived up to that billing: the temperatures dropped to. The New York Road Runners Org has chosen such a strange course for this year’s NYC half marathon. We always claim that the Farnborough Winter Half Marathon is the coolest race in the UK.

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