I have not run in Dubrovnik, but I did visit there in 2009. I can validate the natural, cultural and architectural beauty of the city and surrounding coastline.
The walled city is very walkable and scenic. We stayed at a hotel on the beach that was a 15-minute walk north of the city. The Adriatic coastline is stunning. Now that I know there is a half there, I need to put it on my bucket list!
Wow, thank you very much for posting about that. These are exactly the kind of halfathons that I want to run in. You'll see me there. You'll also see me next month running the Pikes Peak Ascent halfathon. That's gonna be brutal.
Oh wow, Mark! That WILL be brutal!!! But also amazing, I have no doubt. A friend of mine (and our newsletter) Melissa Mincic, ran it and wrote about it a few years ago. The photos look absolutely spectacular.
Also, glad to hear these are the kinds of races you want to see -- when I first started running 20+ years ago, what really excited me about it was the places it could take you. That you could go run through the midnight sun in Alaska, or along the shoreline in Bermuda, or in places like Dubrovnik. I'll keep looking for more like this one 👍
The Pikes Peak Ascent has me nervous. It climbs 8,000 feet to finish on the summit at 14,000 feet. I'm training like an animal for it but I live on the beach in Florida at sea level. I do a ton of interval sprinting in the beach's softest sand. That's the closest I can come to running up a hill. I recently ran a half at Lake Tahoe at 7,000 ft elevation. My time was a bit slower than normal and I felt the elevation during the 2nd half of the race.
I have not run in Dubrovnik, but I did visit there in 2009. I can validate the natural, cultural and architectural beauty of the city and surrounding coastline.
How cool! What did you see while you were there?
The walled city is very walkable and scenic. We stayed at a hotel on the beach that was a 15-minute walk north of the city. The Adriatic coastline is stunning. Now that I know there is a half there, I need to put it on my bucket list!
Wow, thank you very much for posting about that. These are exactly the kind of halfathons that I want to run in. You'll see me there. You'll also see me next month running the Pikes Peak Ascent halfathon. That's gonna be brutal.
Oh wow, Mark! That WILL be brutal!!! But also amazing, I have no doubt. A friend of mine (and our newsletter) Melissa Mincic, ran it and wrote about it a few years ago. The photos look absolutely spectacular.
Also, glad to hear these are the kinds of races you want to see -- when I first started running 20+ years ago, what really excited me about it was the places it could take you. That you could go run through the midnight sun in Alaska, or along the shoreline in Bermuda, or in places like Dubrovnik. I'll keep looking for more like this one 👍
The Pikes Peak Ascent has me nervous. It climbs 8,000 feet to finish on the summit at 14,000 feet. I'm training like an animal for it but I live on the beach in Florida at sea level. I do a ton of interval sprinting in the beach's softest sand. That's the closest I can come to running up a hill. I recently ran a half at Lake Tahoe at 7,000 ft elevation. My time was a bit slower than normal and I felt the elevation during the 2nd half of the race.