Key West Half Marathon - Run

This was the first race I've done with my wife. We trained for 6 weeks and our results far exceeded my expectations. I thought we would be in the 3:10 - 3:20 range, I never would have imagined seeing 2:xx on my watch when we crossed the line. I knew we would not be last, this was my wife's biggest fear, but again, I didn't think we would pass over 500 people on the course. We decided to hit the porta-pottie after the gun went off and before we crossed the start line, so we were within a person or two of being DFL at the start. At some point during the race she even said "the next one we do" which I will remind her of at some point in the near future.

Longer training time leading up to the race.

Tried to find some shade and beer. Shade was hard to find and the beer line was a huge disappointment. I'm not an IPA fan, so the beer was not what I wanted. Ended up finding a bench under a tree while my wife got in line for iced Cuban coffee. Where was that at mile 10?


30+ mph head wind and all of the run/walk idiots that would sprint past us then stop and stroll. There should be an "if you pass someone 10 times" rule where you can force them to take a time out.


Seeing as this was one of the few, if not only the half marathon that was not cancelled because of the weather on this particular weekend, I was very happy with the event. The RD did a great job of planning ahead for course changes and communicated the changed start time very well. I can't imagine the sleepless night and nervous stomach the RD had with what was being forecast, but from a participant's perspective, it was a very smooth and well run race. We will be back.