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As I circled the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, abutting the aboriginal mile brand of the Annapolis Bisected Marathon, I noticed how attractive the aurora was.

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It was like article out of a postcard—orange and chicken beginning over the border and aloft Maryland’s State House.

I would accept chock-full to booty a picture, but I was on my way to a half-marathon PR and I didn’t appetite to stop!

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The Annapolis Active Classic was captivated Saturday morning in Annapolis, and featured a half-marathon and a 10K race. This year was my third time active the half, and my aboriginal year as a chase ambassador, allowance to advance the accident on amusing media and through this blog. The Annapolis Active Classic was the aboriginal half-marathon I anytime ran, so it was actual appropriate to me to be able to represent this admirable chase in Maryland’s basic city, area I live, comedy and train. And my co-blogger, Kate Mills, ran the 10K chase with two of her accompany and said she enjoyed the acquaintance as well.

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See also: Active my aboriginal 10K

This half-marathon is for runners who appetite a challenge. Several months ago, I wrote about active the Annapolis Ten Mile Run, and how arresting that is.

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The Annapolis Bisected is actual similar—just 3.1 afar longer, and with added hills! Runners cantankerous the Naval Academy Bridge twice, as they do in the A10, but afresh the ascend continues into the neighborhoods aloft the Severn River, and never absolutely levels out that abundant afterwards that.

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The absolute additional bisected of the chase is all up and down, and really, it feels like added up than down! At atomic I’ll be able for the Turkey Trot 5K I run every year in my arresting hometown in southwestern Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving.

However, I’ve said this before, but you can’t exhausted Annapolis for on-the-run scenery. As I was active over the Naval Academy Bridge for the additional time, I looked out over the river and saw how appealing the autumn copse looked. It was a acceptable aberration for my quads!

One of the Annapolis Active Classic’s trademarks is its afterwards party. Most contest aloof accord runners ablaze beer at the finish. Not the Annapolis Active Classic. Finishers are advised to an ability barbecue and tunes played by the Timmie Metz Band. And, of course, there was beer….. lots of it.

I affective some oysters and a beer afterwards and afraid out for a while to aloof relax afterwards the race. I clocked 1:41:01 (because I couldn’t run two abnormal faster to accomplishment in the 1:40s, I guess?) which is a PR for me. I was captivated and afraid by that because the advance is so difficult. I assumption all my active through Annapolis, abnormally over the Naval Academy Bridge, paid off.

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That was my aftermost big chase of the year—which agency it’s clearly time for me to activate training for the Charlottesville Chase in Charlottesville, Virginia, on April 1. (Even admitting I swore I’d never afresh alternation for addition chase over the winter.) Keep afterward this blog for added of my adventures in chase training!

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