Marblehead Half Marathon

Marblehead Half Marathon starts at 9 a.m. in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on April 11, 2027. It is a single-distance event: the half marathon (13.1 miles), with no shorter races on the programme.

A one-race card means everyone on the line is running the same thing, which makes for a cleaner start than a mass field split across four distances. The 9 a.m. gun is late enough for a normal breakfast, so eat two to three hours out and skip the pre-dawn logistics most spring races demand. As a road half in mid-April, it sits well as either a goal race off a 12-week build or a controlled effort inside a longer marathon block, run at marathon pace rather than raced flat out.