Half Marathon State # 04 Half Marathon #07

This weekend, June 1-2, 2013, I traveled to Colonial Williamsburg, VA to run the Run for the Dream Half Marathon.  This race was recommended by several of my fellow runners to complete another state toward my 50 By 50 Challenge.  We arrived in Williamsburg around 11 AM on Saturday morning.

We booked to stay at the Williamsburg Woodland Resort, which is where the race expo was held (I will review the hotel and the restaurants we ate later this week).  The race expo was small, but well organized.  Since there wasn’t anything I was looking for at the expo, we just went in got my paperwork, bib, and race instructions, then headed out to do some sightseeing.

As a part of the race package I got a free ticket to tour Colonial Williamsburg, so that is what we decided to do.  After we got settled in our room, we decided to get something to eat.  We ate at a restaurant on property called Huzzahi.  It was really good, and I will review it later this week.  After lunch, we went to the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor’s Center to get my wife a ticket for the Colonial Williamsburg tour.  Upon talking with the ticket person, we found out we could get her a free ticket, because we were staying on property.  This was a great budget savings, as the tickets were around $40.  Since this is a race recap, I will give a review of the tour in a separate post later this week.  For dinner Saturday, we went with an old reliable, Cracker Barrel.  I have done this the last few half marathons, so I wanted to keep with the tradition, since it has not bothered me in the past.  After dinner, we rode around town to find the starting line and where we would park on Sunday morning.

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