Miami Half Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Miami Half Marathon is run together with the Life Time Miami Marathon on a Sunday at the end of January or start of February, with a 6:00 am start in Downtown Miami. Life Time is the organiser. Both races start on Biscayne Boulevard in front of the Kaseya Center, home of the Miami Heat, and head north before turning onto the MacArthur Causeway, the largest bridge on the course, which leads across to Miami Beach. At the breakaway point the half marathon splits off to the finish line at Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Boulevard, which it shares with the marathon apart from a deviation in the last 200 metres. The organisers describe the course as almost all flat and spanning the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, and say the area is at sea level with no noticeable elevation changes, apart from the slight inclines of several bridges. The course counts as a single loop, since the finish is only four blocks from the start. The event was founded in 2003, and the weekend also includes a Tropical 5K on the Saturday and Kids Run Miami. The half marathon course records are 1:03:46 for men, set by Brian Sell in 2008, and 1:13:53 for women, set by Santa Ines Melchor in 2016.