Stumped by a race in your crossword? Crack the code here!

As a detective tasked with solving the mystery of the crossword clue ‘Kind of race that’s not quite a half-marathon‘, my immediate thought was to consider the possible options for races that were shorter than a half-marathon but still somewhat similar. I knew that a half-marathon is 13.1 miles, so I started thinking about races that could be slightly shorter, such as a 10K or a 10-mile race. The clue itself suggests that the race is similar to a half-marathon, which made me lean towards the 10-mile option. To confirm my suspicion, I started looking through possible letter combinations to see if they could spell out ‘tenmile‘ and sure enough, it fit perfectly. It all came down to carefully considering the details provided in the clue itself and relying on my knowledge of races and their various distances to solve this crossword puzzle.