The Holiday Half-Marathon was held on Saturday, December 9 at Mullet Point Park, Point Clear, Alabama.

This is a great course for anyone interested in a flat fast half marathon course within driving distance of Hattiesburg. There were about 200 people in the half and 85 or so in the  8K.

The 8:30 a.m. start found us jumping around from foot to foot trying to keep warm in the 38 degree weather.  Hey, it was South Alabama and that's about as cold as it gets, so lots of people just had to wear their Goretex and North Face fleece.  You don't get a lot of chances down there, you know.  I put on my Santa hat and wore it the whole way.

It was a perfect race for us.  We started out in the back and passed lots of people after seven or eight miles, and no one passed us.  The last two miles were our fastest. You don't get to say that too often!  We ran 2:06:51.

After the race we were standing around drinking Starbucks coffee and eating pizza when they called out Renee's name.  She won the Grand Master Division. © Dow Ford

picture one  -  Grand Master Champion with Trophy

picture three  -  The running rig, with stove, french press, monkey 
stick, and tackle box of gu and BC powders

picture two  -  Dirty Santa


picture four - Post race coffee and pizza