I’d had Sleepy Hollow on my list of races to do for awhile now (I’m a fan of Halloweeny things and even though this race isn’t Halloween related, it’s still Sleepy Hollow, ha) and I have to say this is the most hills I’ve ever done on a Half course before, ha. By mile 13 my legs were uncharacteristically dead, which rarely happens, ha.

That being said, hilly or not, I really liked the challenge of the course, and it’s easier to contend with when there’s the nice scenery of quaint Tarrytown while you’re battling the course. For the 2018 edition there was a section of the course moved to a major road (shared with traffic but with plenty of police presence), but that’s apparently not the norm (too much late season snow on a section of the trails), and that was the only part of the course I wasn’t really fond of, but like I said, it’s not normally the there so if anything I have to give the race directors credit for coming up with a quick solution when conditions made part of the course unusable.

The shirt and medals were nice for this one, nothing fancy but definitely cool designs. Parking was a bit far but if you’re going to run 13 miles it’s hard to complain about walking a bit to the start, ha. This is a challenging half but that just makes me want to take it on again one day in the future even more. No sighting of the headless horseman on the course, ha, but if you look for it you’ll see his image here and there, definitely enjoyed his one!