Greensboro Half Marathon

Greensboro Half Marathon is run in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 21, 2026. A one-mile fun run opens the morning at 8:00 a.m., the half marathon (13.1 miles) starts at 8:30 a.m. and the 5K at 8:40 a.m. Both timed courses are flat, fast and USATF-certified, and the half is run as two loops specifically to keep the terrain even. Finisher medals belong to the Mega Medal series and connect magnetically to the others to form a larger piece.

The design here is aimed squarely at personal bests. A flat two-loop course lets you split the race in half mentally and check your pace against the same landmarks the second time around, which helps if you tend to start too fast. If a PR is the goal, spend the final six weeks of a 12-week build doing one session a week at target half-marathon pace, starting with three miles and working toward six or seven. The 5K works as a shorter test of the same fitness.