![]() Holla back!! Have your own party on the road. you’ll see a lot of locals and teams cheering. Last year they had these big water dispensers at the start.Every year they’ve had portapotties inside the corrals.Weekend trains can be more sporadic so plan for it, ok? If you don’t want to plan: leave early and follow ANY runner. On race day, take your time to get to the start.Come with time to enjoy BK ( pics here and here from 2016), there’s food vendors, drinkies, and cool Brooklyn gear to buy (start saving now!) Once you make the right turn, you’ll have about half a mile, you make a left at some point, go up a ramp, and a right into the boardwalk to run about 200 meters (in the boardwalk!) straight to the finish line! Other tips and things you should know: Or count down the avenues (they’re lettered!). Choose a runner ahead (not the one right there, the other one!) and focus. But it is, to me, an amazing opportunity to zone out, drive hard and bring it in. It’s a highway, it might be… There’s less spectators than in the park, it’s quiet and it’s just a STRAIGHT LONG road to the finish. Some people will tell you it’s boring and there is nothing to look at, etc. This is the best part, because you can really go crazy here. There’s a steep downhill into the parkway, be ready for it! Just past that, it’s OPEN, it’s wide, there’s tons of space and people to chase down. Once you exit the park (Mile 7), you will be in Ocean Parkway all the way until the last mile of the race. I like to start when I exit the park because, mentally, it’s an easier break. You could start part 2 right after the hill in Prospect Park, right before Mile 6. I’d run the first part very carefully (aka slowish) so you can spread your wings in the second part. The race is flat or downhill past mile 6 so you have a lot of room to play with. Part 2 is when you crank up the heat (STFU!). Seriously, the bumps (can’t call them anything else, they’re NOT hills!) are done before Mile 6!!! Part 2: You have a nice down after the hill another tiny bump in the course and then you’re in the clear. Check the elevation above again (almost comparable to Harlem Hill). It’s looong and you can’t see where it ends but it’s also not super bad. Very very manageable and sweet.Ĭourse is very scenic and pretty quiet until you get to the Prospect Park Hill (there’s only one) (does it even have another name?) a bit after Mile 4.5. These red parts are not big HILLS ok? Nothing to worry about, check up the elevation on the chart above, and you’ll see. I love turnarounds, heeeey heeeeey everyone! Something to look forward to on the second mile is the rest of the runners in front or behind you. Race starts (awesome sight of the Brooklyn Museum) downhill, for a half mile, then up for another half mile while you run towards the Grand Army Plaza (which you’ll run around), then up and down again. I compared the last two years and I got the same (160.65 ft elevation vs 162.03 ft, but pretty similar). If you want to click on the course elevation and get more details (so you know exactly where everything is on the map) that’s all here. This is what the elevation profile looks like: With this cheating sheet you won’t be surprised or have any reason to fade off in the second half. This course is easy to take on, quite similar to the NYC Half actually, but faster (there’s less hills, no wind in the second part, and a faster last mile -NO TUNNEL!)
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