jetBlue Long Beach Marathon and Half Marathon
jetBlue Long Beach Marathon and Half Marathon
( 14 reviews )-
Long Beach,
California,
United States - October
- 3 miles/5K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon, 26.2 miles/Marathon, Other
- Road Race
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Kelly Nicholson
California, United StatesOverall
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My first time running this Long Beach half marathon but I’ve run other LB half’s.
The first half was challenging but easily doable..
(I thought I’d be relatively flat (that’s why I chose this for my comeback run following pandemic) - not the case), the entire 2nd half was constant uphill (not steep but constant incline) and by then the sun was out full force- (I’m really not a sun runner). Kept anticipating the corresponding downhill: it never came.
First half - cool, undulating hills, excellent scenery
Second half - hot, one long unending uphill, climb, it literally doesn’t end till maybe .25 before finish, brutal, grueling, 7 out of 10 folks around me started walking.
I said ok we’ve gone about 3 miles uphill , we turn around and float three miles downhill- downhill never came.
Parking was cool…Highly recommend an earlier start, say 6.