Odgen Half Marathon

Whitney, Ben and I ran the Odgen Half marathon this year. We changed the family spring run from the Salt Lake Half Marathon (that we have done for the last 4 years) to the Ogden race. As a group we have enjoyed a spring run requiring training though the winter to be ready to run. We have not liked the swag or the poorly stocked support of the SL race and decided to change to the Odgen event. The other cool thing is that the Ogden race gives us one more month to prepare (Ogden in May, SL in April). The long snowy winter of this year really didn't give us any training advantage in fact it was worse for me because all I have wanted to do was ski instead of train. I always have this misguided belief that my ski touring (or cycling) is excellent training for a half marathon. I did have the fitness from the skiing but not the running legs needed to do a half without repercussions.

The Ogden half is a beautiful run. We start in (the garden of) Eden, Utah, run past Pineview Reservoir and down Ogden canyon. At the bottom of the canyon we run along a nice greenbelt through Odgen and then out onto a main wide street in the old downtown area. The weather was perfect for a run and I was able to stay in contact with Ben and Whitney periodically throughout the race. Whitney and I finished together. I finished in 2 hour 10 minutes (about in the middle of my age group and in the middle of all runners).