2016 South Shore Half Marathon
Success! South Shore Half Marathon complete! And it was so much fun doing it with friends! One of our friends lives near the start line of the race, so we walked over right before things kicked off promptly at 7:30 AM. We arrived at the start line just minutes before the gun, so we had a little trouble lining up in our respective corrals. It was just too crowded to finagle our way back, so we ended up starting in the 7-minute corral. I realize this is a HUGE runner no-no, and it personally drives me crazy when people line up with the wrong pace, but we literally could not move. A guy next to me even joked that this cluster was “the only thing [lining up front to back] they [the race organizers] hadn’t figured out yet” Oh, so true. The South Shore Half Marathon, only in its third year, is extremely well-organized, so I smiled and agreed. After last year’s half , I couldn’t say enough great things about the race. And, honestly, it was probably our fault for waiting until the las