Mount Dora Half Marathon

Mount Dora Half Marathon

Mount Dora Half Marathon

( 16 reviews )
100% of reviewers recommend this race
  • Mount Dora,
    Florida,
    United States
  • December
  • 3 miles/5K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

Shannon Chenoweth

Winter Garden, Florida, United States
59 37
2017
"Hilly, But Fun Race"
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Shannon Chenoweth's thoughts:

The Mt. Dora Half Marathon is a race I've thought about doing a few times. I did run the 5k back in 2014, so it was great to come back and run the half this time.

The race is hilly, for Florida that is. There are a couple of hills that are more challenging than others, and I walked up those and would run the down hill portions. If you do a good amount of hill training though, I think the Mt. Dora hills would be easier.

I enjoyed the course, it's mostly through neighborhoods and they are pretty nice. Some of the locals also came out to cheer us on. Most memorable are these two little girls who were on their porch encouraging the runners with bells on. :)

The support is great, I felt that there were plenty of water stops and cheering volunteers along the way. Definitely well-run by the race management. Never felt like there was anything lacking along the race route.

The finish area is pretty neat, since this race is in December, it's taken on a Christmas theme. I enjoyed that there were photo ops with a giant inflated Snowman and Santa. The medal is also nice, this year it was a spinner which is pretty cool.

The only thing I would recommend to the RD is to have more port-o-lets in the starting area, there were only about 6 or 7 of them and I ended up waiting a bit longer than I would have had to if there were more available. Otherwise, I recommend this race, and would do it again.

You can check out my more detailed race recap on my blog: http://girlsgotsole.com/blog/race-recap-2017-mt-dora-half-marathon/

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