Kenyans McDonald Ondara and Magdalene Makunzi won the second annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon San Jose on Sunday. Ondara, 23, covered the 13.1-mile course in 1 hour, 1 minute, 11 seconds. Makunzi, 24, broke the tape in 1:09:58.
The men’s race culminated in a sprint to the finish as Ondara, who led the majority of the race, beat the 27-year-old Tanzanian John Yuda by just seconds.
“I was sort of afraid of him,” said Ondara of his closest competitor Yuda. “It was very hard to predict,” Ondara added about planning his final kick.
Yuda managed a smile as he clutched his ribs after the finish from an apparent side stitch.
“It was a good race,” Yuda said. “The course was quick.”
After mile three, the men’s lead pack began to thin out, gradually dropping American Khalid Khannouchi. The four-time Chicago Marathon champion was clearly frustrated with his 1:05:04 finish time.
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Warwick Ford is a guest contributor to The Final Sprint and author of “Fun on Foot in America’s Cities,” the book that details and maps the best on-foot routes in 14 major US cities. Check out Warwick’s site for more information and to purchase the book.
There are two things that make San Francisco a place where running outdoors is irresistible. The first is the set of scenic routes resulting from the city’s location on the Pacific Ocean and the enormous natural harbor and associated waterways that constitute the Bay. The second is the weather. The monthly average maximum temperature lies between 56 and 70 degrees year-round and the monthly average minimum lies between 46 and 56. Therefore, weather is unlikely to dampen your enthusiasm for getting outdoors for a run.
For a training or recreational route to be motivating and enjoyable it needs to have four attributes:
Applying this model to San Francisco, we came up with the following three winning routes.
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