Looking forward to mile 4 and not to mile 8

The half-marathon is 40 days from today. 40 days! In honour of this event I spent some time surfing the marathon website. I’m now on the list of official registrants which is good. So far I’m the only Cecilia. I also discovered the colour coded elevation map.

“The Course elevation is moderately hilly starting at approximately 100ft. dipping at the low to 40ft, and topping out at the 200ft level.”

Yea, moderately hilly. Based on the map, here’s my mile by mile breakdown on the half-marathon course along with my own Easy/Medium/Hard rating for each mile. Realistically I know there won’t be any easy miles but it’s all relative.

Mile	My description	My rating
1	Starts slightly uphill then mostly flat	Easy
2	Variable: uphill then downhill	Medium
3	All uphill	Hard
4	All slightly downhill	Easy
5	Slightly downhill then mostly flat	Easy
6	Mostly flat	Easy
7	One short steep uphill	Medium
8	Slight downhill then big hill	Hard
9	Half slight downhill, hall slight uphill	Medium
10	Several steep uphill bits	Hard
11	Variable	Medium
12	Variable	Medium
13	Slight downhill then slight uphill towards end	Medium
13.1	Flat into the stadium	Easy

In a few weeks I’m planning on doing a training run along the course. Well, the part of the course that isn’t downtown and isn’t on I-90! I’ll get to train on approximately the last 8.5 miles of the course. I think this will be a big help especially since that includes most of the “Hard” miles.