My third half marathon in the last two years – May 2026 Garmin Durham 1/2 marathon – done!
Lovely race; running through the Durham Bulls stadium is a very special experience, and so is finishing on Duke’s football stadium.
Problem with finishing on this stadium: then you have to climb all of the stadium’s stairs, on shaky, wooden legs. But the unique experience is worth it. It reminded me of some of the truly unique races I have done before, like a race that goes through the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River and a race on the airstrip of the Teterboro Airport. Huge thanks to the organizers for bringing these one-of-a-kind events to life.
About Maria Gorlatova
Dr. Maria Gorlatova is the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research centers on pervasive computing technologies, with a focus on spatial computing and next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab. Dr. Gorlatova was named one of the N2Women Rising Stars and has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, and research awards from Meta, Cisco, and IBM. She served as the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023, the General Co-Chair of the 2025 NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, and the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE SenSys 2025.
