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This morning was the Queens Half, on a brand new course, centered around Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Establishing a new course this year was an excellent idea. At last year’s Queens Half, centered at College Point, it was so difficult to get to the start and home from the finish that many runners had their starts severely delayed and their day’s plans seriously disrupted.
The new course is really excellent. You get to the start/finish area via the 7 train. The runner passes all the interesting sights in the Flushing Meadows vicinity. It is also a pleasantly flat course, ideal for fast times and PRs on a normal day.
But today was no normal day. The race (thankfully) started at 7:00 am. However, the official race temperature was 86 degrees and humidity was 63%.
I ran my worst time ever in a half marathon (and I am not particularly out of condition). Compare that with last year’s Queens Half (run in September) where I ran my personal best. Every other runner I spoke to had similar thoughts – this was really a brutal run.
NYRR and their volunteers did an amazing job in supporting the event. There were water stations (almost all with Gatorade as well) at almost every mile. Problems today were definitely not attributable to the race organizers.
NYC weather is surprisingly nasty this summer. Keep cool, runners!

Tags: Queens Half Marathon

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