First time running the Ogden Marathon. Wow, I wish I would have done this a long time ago, what a terrific race. Paul (prlman), thank you for making this happen, who knows how much longer I may have put this off. For about the last 7 or 8 years I've been running the Salt Lake Marathon and had no desire to run another marathon 4 weeks later. Now I have a problem, the Salt Lake Marathon is near and dear to my heart but Odgen is a way better marathon course. I'll probably run Salt Lake as a training run and save my juice for Ogden. Since I had just poured everything into SL Marathon a few weeks ago, I knew I didn't have it in me to chase a PR. My approach was to go out easy, a little under 8 minute pace, check myself at the halfway point and then decide to either throw the hammer down or dial it back and enjoy the scenery. Halfway I was a few seconds under 1:44 (7:56 pace). I felt good and decided to push for a negative split. I barely made it at 1:43:46, negative by 14 seconds. I'm not nearly as sore today (i'm typing this up Sunday morning) as I usually am after a marathon. I'm about as sore as I am after a good hard 20 mile training run. Stairs are no problem. I don't know if the Ogden course agrees with my body or if I just didn't run hard enough to shred my legs. Looking back, I don't think I could have run this any faster than I did. 1. 8:04 2. 8:04 3. 6:40 4. 8:25 5. 7:48 6. 7:39 7. 7:44 8. 7:45 9. 8:03 10. 8:05 11. 8:16 12. 8:12 13. 8:17 14. 8:10 15. 8:28 16. 8:04 17. 8:08 18. 7:38 19. 7:57 20. 7:58 21. 7:43 22. 7:26 23. 7:27 24. 7:55 25. 8:07 26. 8:04 .2. 1:39 (8:15) The last two miles were very tough compared to the prior 6. I love this course. 222 out of 2385 overall 176 out of 1206 men 22 out of 134 AG (I raced with under someone else's bib, this is where I would have finish in my AG)
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