Main Street Half Marathon, Aileen Flanagan So how do you run 5 miles and still get credit for running a half marathon? You do it as a relay team. That’s just what Kathy Hale and I did on October 6 at the Main Street Half Marathon of Hunterdon. The race started at the old bridge in Clinton and ended at Liberty Village in Flemington. Since the Rose City racing team and the Hill Runners racing team decided at the beginning of the year to join together to race in team races, Kathy wore her Hill Runners singlet, and I wore my Rose City singlet. Several members from Hill Runners ran the race as well. The race could be run as a half marathon or it could be broken into an 8 mile rolling hills
Deer Path Park in Readington is a great location for a race in the fall – rolling hills (and that one darn steep hill) and lots of fall foliage. Unfortunately the park is also at the top of a hill, which means the wind occasionally whips across the landscape, as it did on Sunday, October 21 for the 8K XC race. A brave crew of RC2 and HRH runners arrived at the park to hear talk of a “shoe-sucking mud pit”. The rains of the previous weeks took their toll on one section of the course – check out the pictures for the full effect. In all, 219 runners headed out on the course. Rose City fielded three teams – the 40s Men placed 10th, the 60s men placed 6th and the 40s women placed 7th. I comme
