More than 1,350 people spent their Sunday afternoon pounding the pavement as part of the 2025 New Bedford Half Marathon.

They wore headphones and phone pouches to keep them occupied for the 13.1-mile loop through the city, from the North End to the ocean, and wore bags and pouches carrying mid-race nutrition and fluids. Some bore kinesiology tape crisscrossing their knees and joints.

Conditions were “almost perfect” for the race, said race official James Dandeneau — mid-50 temperatures with some cloud cover to keep runners from roasting, and only light winds downtown. It may have contributed to some of the several dozen same-day registrations.

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