I was not able to run this race this fall, however I was very intrigued with the prospect of having a half marathon available every year at a great time and only a couple of miles from my house.
Upon Googling the Hershey Half marathon I was able to navigate through the site and find the results. Site design notice - a link to the results should appear on the opening page. The results page opened with the following;
These are the updated individual results after reviewing tapes. We apologize for any confusion. Thank you for participating in the inaugural Hershey Half Marathon.I have no behind the scenes knowledge regarding the organizers of this race - but I believe they may have underestimated the resources necessary to execute a race. The Beach to Beacon 10K race in Maine this past August (which I ran) used over 700 volunteers to assist with the race.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
My primary concern with this race was the group which was selected to time the race had no presence in this area prior to the race. I never heard of them. When you you run a race, you expect the timing to be accurate. A secondary issue was there was no mention of the RFID based timing chips (B or D) on the Hershey Half marathon web site.
Hopefully everything went well and the genesis of a great fall tradition has commenced.
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