Echigo Yuzawa Cosmos Half-Marathon (Setp. 25)

Last Sunday I went to Yuzawa for the annual "Cosmos" Half-Marathon. I took the Joetsu Shinkansen at 6:30h and arrived shortly after 8:00h in Yuzawa. Start time was 9:50h - enough time to get ready.

The weather was ok - while it was not particular cold it was much cooler than in August.

The course is nice but the first 6 km it goes uphill; then 5 km down and the last 2-3 you go up again.

I wanted to finish under 1:30h but I ended up with just under 1:32h. Still, no reason to be unhappy as I was 4 minutes faster than last year.

While this is not a marathon for record results it has some advantages: with a total of about 3,500 participants it is not a overcrowded mega-event and then it is only 1.5 hours from Tokyo.