2007 Race: There was a threat of the winter's first snow storm, and an inch of snow on the dirt roads behind the Ag Arena (the race's first 2.5 miles) made early going a bit treacherous. But the predicted sleet and rain bypassed the area, and the moderate temperature (low 30s) and low winds made the 24th running of the Nittany Vally Half-Marathon a lot nicer than it could have been. Over 350 runners completed the course. Race results, the Race Director's report, and lots of photos are posted here. Race proceeds benefit the Centre Volunteers in Medicine.

2008 Race: Due to venue scheduling, this year's race will be a few weeks earlier than usual. The chances of snow and ice are significantly less. The race will be held on Sunday, November 2 at 10 AM. Race headquarters is the Penn State Ag Arena on Park Avenue and Porter Rd. We're hoping for a beautiful late fall day. Registration: $17 by November 1, $20 on race day. Application. You can register online at active.com, http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1539823. For more information, contact the Race Director, Dave Eggler, at eggler@geosc.psu.edu.

• Course Description, Map, and Elevation Profile from the NVRC Maps Pages.
• Men's Event Record: 1984, Bill Reifsnyder, 1:07:07
  Men's Present Course Record: 2006, Nathan Harkins, 1:11:34
  Women's Event and Course Record: 2006, Martha Nelson, 1:19:57
• A back-of-the-envelope Half-Marathon training program.
• Race Day Helpful Hints For Middle-of-the Pack Half-Marathoners.
  
• Time vs. Age Plots from the 1993-1997 Races  A few years ago, Dave Boger compiled all of the times, genders, and ages that he had from the 1993-1997 races and graphed them. The graph shows all of the data, along with a least-squares-generated second-order polynomial fit, representing time averages for each gender by age. Granted, there's quite a bit of scatter, but Dave thought the result was interesting anyway.
  
• Runner's Gazette story on the 'unseasonably cold' 2000 Nittany Valley Half-Marathon (by Morgan Wasikons).
  
• Miscellaneous Data on Past Races.
• The weather for the Half can be anything from summer-like (1998) to brutally hibernal. See the Miscellaneous Data page for a complete weather history. Troy Klinger, won the 1992 race in 1:16:28, and may at times have thought he was the only person on the course due to white-out conditions. He offers this recollection:

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