Half Marathons
The Half Marathon is my favorite race distance. It's long enough that you need to train for it, but not so far that it disrupts your weekends with long stretch runs. For me, the three marathons I ran felt too far. Anytime I ran a training run or race over 17 miles, the last miles were not fun. And 10K's feel too short. You can be done in under an hour. It's hardly worth the registration fee. But the Half, your training runs might top out at 11 or 12 miles. That can be done in under 2 hours. And on race day, you give max effort and feel the right level of spent. You feel you earned your swag. Ten Milers are great too, there's just not many of them.
