Montreal 2016 half marathon
Back to the index On April 24th I participated in the Scotia Bank Montreal Half Marathon . The day was a bit too cold to be running outside... I walked the seven kilometers from my house near the Olympic Stadium to the Parc des Îles, where the race would happen. It took me a bit more than one hour to get there. This half marathon happens completely inside the Parc des Îles, we pass by some places twice, some other places even three times. I don't particularly like this. After the first kilometer we had already seen the kilometer markers for 6K and 20K. A bit discouraging... There was a good crowd there. The half marathon didn't sell out, but there was a large number of people anyway lined up for the start. The course is not so great, too many places with gravel and dirty. Fortunately it was not raining... I reached the half way point around 58'30'', so I had high hopes of reaching my first ever sub-2 in a half marathon. But the second half was ha