Whether you’ve chosen the Zion’s Bank Ogden Marathon for the lush scenery or the screamingly fast course, you’re in for a truly memorable run through an idyllic part of Utah. The CLIF Bar Pace Team is excited to be returning to Ogden for our third consecutive year, and we’re here today to guide you through your upcoming run.

The Ogden Marathon starts at an elevation of 5,400 feet. Depending upon where you live and train, this shouldn’t be high enough to present a problem to your race, especially since the course drops throughout the race. At the same time, don’t be shocked (or nervous) if the air feels just a little thinner up at the start. The chilly desert temperatures, combined with nerves and that bit of altitude, can be just enough to worry you.  We promise there’s no need; once your race gets going, you’ll settle in to your breathing pattern and start dropping down those hills.

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While watching a brutally long, and perhaps excruciatingly hot and hilly stage of a major bike race, maybe you’ve thought to yourself, “What do those guys eat the night before they do this stuff?” Well, if you’re a longtime fan of cycling who might have watched movies like Le Course en Tête and Stars and Water Carriers about twenty times each, it’s easy to assume that the riders are packed into a huge cafeteria and fed chewy steaks and a mound of pasta (no sauce) each night.

Well, food in the professional peloton has changed pretty dramatically over the years, and it’s most apparent when you stop by the Garmin-Sharp Mobile Kitchen after a race.  The team leaves nothing to chance when it comes to their riders’ nutrition, and they bring with them to each stage two team chefs (they actually refer to themselves as Food Mechanics) who lovingly create great meals featuring wholesome organic ingredients, on the spot. So, what did the Garmin riders eat the night before the Amgen Tour of California’s epic first stage that featured 11,000 feet of climbing over 103 miles in 95+ degree heat? Well, this:

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Steph Davis is a long time Team CLIF Bar family member and a superstar in the climbing community. She’s ascended some of the world’s most awe-inspiring peaks and was the first woman to free climb the Salathé Wall in Yosemite and to free solo the Longs Peak Diamond. Following a time of great transition and change a number of years ago, Steph suddenly found herself without a partner, a career, a source of income…or a purpose.

In the company of only her beloved dog Fletch, Davis sets off on a search for a new identity, and discovers skydiving. Though falling out of an airplane is completely antithetical to the climber’s control she’d practiced for so long, Davis turns each daring jump into an opportunity to fly, first as a skydiver, then as a BASE jumper, and finds herself indelibly change

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The SWATCH Freeride World Tour makes its fourth stop at Kirkwood Mountain Resort Wednesday, February 27. CLIF Bar is proud to support the FWT once again, and this week’s competition guarantees to be a great one right here in our very own backyard high sierra venue. The competition and webcast are both scheduled to start today at 9am. Tune in Live and Enjoy the Ride!

Keep an eye out for Team CLIF Bar’s Josh Daiek and get a taste for how local Truckee and tour hopeful Sean Collin prepares for his day of competition with the CLIF Bar Daily Feed!

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Watch the Freeskiing World Tour Live right here!

After four days of snowy British Columbia, Canada weather, the SWATCH Freeride World Tour by The North Face 2013 (FWT) officially announces its day of competition on Mackenzie Peak’s “Mac Daddy” face Friday, January 11, 2013.

CLIF has proudly partnered with the event again in 2013, and the exciting first stop of the global big mountain freeriding comp can be witnessed from anywhere in the world via the live webcast below and is also available at freerideworldtour.com.

Friday’s day of competition will start at 9:00am PST (6pm CET) and will begin with the men’s snowboarding, and then men’s freeskiing runs. The competition day will continue with women’s snowboarding and finally the women’s freeskiing.

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