South Padre Island's Loco Half Marathon

South Padre Island's Loco Half Marathon

South Padre Island - Loco Half Marathon

Date: June 1, 2013

Time: 1:47:32

Pace: 8:13

Place: 4/84 

Web: http://www.locorunningevents.com/south-padre-island-half-612013.html

South Padre Island Half is the 7th installment in this great adventure! This was an inaugural run - so it was one of those " I really want to do it now" yet I was very skeptical about this race. The website saids it would have a "road" option which was the deciding factor to signed up, the whole running on the beach made me really nervous. 

Once i got to the expo/packet pick-up i was left wanting more. There was maybe 2 other vendors and there was no one there! I figure this race would be small but - wow i never expected it to be this small!

Race Day! 

The race started at 7:00 am and lets just say - it was not early enough! The Course was still being clean - aka - a lot of seaweed was been removed. The course was simple run straight to the turn around point, and then back - really no chance to get lost. Unfortunately, the race director was overwhelm by the race logistics. There wasn't enough water stations on the course (2 total) and no porta potties. I just to say, it looked like the race director tried, she really tried but the odds were not on her favor. 

Pre-race photo

I had never ran a beach run... needless to say it was an interesting run! It really felt more like an obsticle run, ...run... jump seaweed... run... jump jellyfish... run.. careful big wave coming in!! haha.. it was an interesting experience after all.

The Bling!!

Well not much of it, as you can see it looked like those bought in bulk - It didnt even have the name of the event!! .. for a $70 race i really did expect more. 

I think the only good thing that this race had was the after-race. We were all treated to some delicious fajitas and free beer :-)

Until next time, it is run #7 - it is getting hot out there. This upcoming races will be mighty interesting.

laters!