On October 26th, I ran The Reservoir Run Half Marathon in Weston, CT. This was a small race with around 300 runners. The first 3 miles of the race were great. Not too much weaving through runners and the course split for the half marathon runners and 5K runners before the second mile. The middle of the course had a lot of rolling hills, but I kept pressing on! Mile 11 was totally BRUTAL. This was the section called the "Weston Climb". It was a very, very steep hill. Basically everyone stopped running and had to walk up the hill. I may have seen one brave person running this hill. I lost SO much time during this mile, but I really didn't care. After getting over the hump, I knew I had less than 2 miles to go so I tried to push it until the end. You finish the race on a school track which is great. Plenty of space for spectators to cheer you on when you come around the finish!

There were plenty of aid stations along the course. This wasn't a huge race but I thought it was organized very well! After the race we had a good variety of food to choose from.