Staten Island Half Marathon

Staten Island Half Marathon

Staten Island Half Marathon

( 7 reviews )
100% of reviewers recommend this race
  • Staten Island ,
    New York,
    United States
  • October
  • 13.1 miles/Half Marathon, Other
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

Jane

Brooklyn, New York, United States
47 15
2014
"Staten Island! Great hometown race for city folk"
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Jane 's thoughts:

Glad I had friends doing the race with me. It's always so lonely when I do a race alone. We were thinking we'd get the 7:30am ferry but took the 7am ferry instead which was packed. Options to get there were 1) drive 2) take the ferry at 6:30, 7, or 7:30am to make the 8:30am start. Luckily the Staten Island ferry terminal is 1) warm 2) had flushing toilets 3) has coffee. I had some coffee but not much since I already drank Nuun Energy with caffeine with my mini Clif Bars for breakfast.

The race started at 8:30 so we spent an hour in the terminal hanging out. We were in corrals 10 and 11 so there was no way we started at 8:30am (official time said that I started at 8:48am).

By mile 6, I saw wild turkeys for the first time in forever. I guess I was used to seeing them upstate but I haven't seen them in a while.

This race went by weirdly fast. When I hit mile 9, I was thinking "maybe they mismarked this course? There's no way I only have 4 miles to go." I probably said that too soon because some of the hardest hills were in the last 4 miles and my hip start to tighten so I stopped to stretch it out.

The course was a out and back course with some really good views of the city and the Verrazano Bridge. It definitely pumps you up for the NYC marathon since the NYC marathon starts in Staten Island on the Verrazano. Because the course is so close to the water, there was a strong headwind in some parts of the race. Also, this race might have been super flat in the past but there were some serious hills here (mile 9-10?).

Medals were great and so was the afterparty that ended in the stadium. Sadly they were only handing out a bagel and apple as food (THAT'S IT?!). It's almost as to encourage people to buy the stadium food.

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