Runners get the chance to trek through the gorgeous, challenging hills of this corner of New England backcountry as well as take in both colonial American and Native American history at the Hamden Hills Half Marathon & 5K, which is set for its 12th annual running on the last weekend of May 2024.
The race will take the field of runners through the part of southern Connecticut known as the “land of the Sleeping Giant,” named for the stretch of mountains about eight miles north of New Haven that actually looks like a giant asleep on the ground (you can learn more about its history and the legend of the Sleeping Giant at Damned Connecticut, a website devoted to weird and unexplained stories throughout the state).
Half-Marathon,5k