Anyone getting ready to run the Houston Marathon course needs to read this post! It’s everything I wish I’d known in advance to have the best day possible. Even as a running coach there were lessons to be learned and each race is a little different.
Hopefully these few key pieces to help make life easier! Once you start to realize how long it takes to train for a marathon, I hope you’ve started looking at the right plan well in advance.
And then you started thinking…should my training be any different for a flat marathon? Yes. Is there anything different about the Houston Marathon Course that I should prepare for? Yes.
I’m so glad you’re thinking ahead and hope these tips will help you have a great race whether it’s your first or you’re out for a Personal Record. When I ran this course it was a PR for me at the time, which should make it a favorite…but man I had a tough day!
Is the Houston Marathon Good?
The marathon is now over 51,000 participants making it a huge race where they are putting time and energy in to a good experience for you as the runner and it draws great crowds to give you a boost of energy.
The course is overall pretty flat which absolutely makes for good personal bests attempts. In fact, they did the Olympic marathon trials there in…
