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"I thought the course was good and challenging. I wouldn't change a thing." ---Rob Guissanie
"You have redefined the meaning of 'somewhat challeging'." ---Jerry Heinz
"It's a very tough course, especially after about mile 7. The last mile is designed to make you see God." ---Marty Mazur
"I was looking for God during the last mile, but I didn't see him. I guess he finished ahead of me too."
--- Albert Mabus, last male finisher at the 2001 NVHM


News Results Miscellany Sponsors


News

2012 Race: The 29th Annual Nittany Valley Half-Marathon will be held on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 10AM. Race headquarters is the Penn State Ag Arena on the north side of Park Avenue just east of Porter/Fox Hollow Rd and Beaver Stadium. More information on the race flier. The registration fee for this year's race is $25. Pre-registration available at Active.com. There is no mail-in pre-registration. Race day registration and pre-registered pickup is 8:00-9:30 AM at the Ag Arena.


Results

Nittany Valley Half-Marathon Results from Years Gone By:

                 1984 1985 1986 1987
1988 1989 1990 1991
1992 1993 1994 1995
                 1996                   1997                1998 1999
2000 2001 2002                   2003
                 2004 2005                2006                   2007
                 2008                   2009               2010                  2011

 


Miscellany
  • 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: 2011, Rebecca Donaghue, 1:17:25
  • A back-of-the-envelope Half-Marathon training program.
  • Race Day Helpful Hints For Middle-of-the Pack Half-Marathoners.
  • NVHM T-Shirts Through The Years  New!
  • 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:
"I remember winning the 1992 race in wicked conditions. I have
to credit the victory to the fact that the PSU Team did not show up
for a change. As a typical runner I can remember the details of every
race well; the first few miles were on snow covered roads until we got out
near the airport. At that point the roads were clear as an unfortunate
result of some really nasty cross winds. I believe Boyd Brumbaugh
finished second that year, but I'm not certain. I remember running with
him during the the mid to latter half of the race.”
  • For information on the Nittany Valley Half-Marathon, contact Dave Eggler at dhe1@psu.edu.

Sponsors


State College, PA
(814) 237-3205

CCDA Waters, LLC - Milesburg
(814) 353-1467


The Nittany Valley Half-Marathon pages were developed by Dave Boger during his tenure as Race Director for the Half. We're happy to carry forward his fine web page design.
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