Fort Ord Half Marathon report

Inside Trail Racing put on another great event this passed weekend, Feb 1st, down in Monterey. The big deal of the day was the Ordinance 100k that got started at 5am. That's a bit much for me. I was there too run the half marathon.
 If you look at a map of the Monterey peninsula you will see Fort Ord National Monument is due east of Monterey and south of that location is Laguna Seca recreation area, the place where we started and finished the race. Pre-race announcements got under way at about 8:20 and this is where we informed that the course was somewhere around 13.5 miles long with about 2100 ft of elevation gain. The extra little bit was no big deal to me and the elevation gain sounded like it was on the low side for most of the halfs I have run. Don't be fooled by this. The hill climbing is no joke in this race.