The Popular® Brooklyn Half, the largest half-marathon in the country, is an iconic 13.1-mile journey through the amazing borough of Brooklyn. The race starts near the Brooklyn Museum and ends at a finish line on the Coney Island boardwalk.
The Popular® Brooklyn Half is part of NYRR's Five-Borough Series: Run New York. Five Boroughs. One City.
Event hashtag: #PopularBKHalf
This race is the biggest half marathon in the country. If the weather cooperates this is a PR friendly course. The first 3 miles are mostly downhill with a little bump at mile 1. The one major hill on the course starts around mile 5, stay steady and get over it. Once your over the hill your going to be tempted to fly on the downhill between mile markers 6 and 7. Just be consistent here and maintain your Half Marathon effort, the course will start to flatten out and now its time to get into a rhythm. If your running right the first 9.5 should feel good, and at mile 10 is where you have to start doing the gut check. You will feel like you're slowing but you just have to keep digging to maintain that pace to the end. Look on the bright side there is only a 5k left.
http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/2018/popular-brooklyn-half
Course PRs for the Club
Rick- 1:35:07
Jen- 1:42:09
Course Info
Distance: 13.1
Elevation Gain: 262 ft
