{"id":697,"date":"2014-01-23T17:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=697"},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:54:46","slug":"a-new-half-marathon-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"A New Half Marathon in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I was surprised to find out that a couple of runs in Somersault&#8217;s extensive race series had been cancelled. \u00a0One was their Day Before Mother&#8217;s Day Race, which had distances of 1k, 3k, 5k, 10k and half marathon. \u00a0I had planned on doing either the half or the 10 so was a little disappointed that the event would not be held.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to learn, however, that Somersault has now added a women&#8217;s half marathon to their very popular &#8220;Emilie&#8217;s Run 5k&#8221; in June. \u00a0The race is memory of Emilie Mondor, who was killed in a car accident in 2006. \u00a0Emilie was the first Canadian woman to run sub 15:00 for 5K and was also an Athens&#8217; Olympian. \u00a0In past years this event had only the women&#8217;s 5k race and a kids&#8217; 1k event. \u00a0I think it is a great idea to add the half marathon, a distance that the organizers note is the fastest growing distance of choice for female runners. \u00a0As far as I know this is the only &#8220;women only&#8221; half marathon in Ottawa. \u00a0I just might have to pencil \u00a0June 21 into my race calendar!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" alt=\"File:Canada Ottawa Panorama.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c0\/Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg\/800px-Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg\" srcset=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c0\/Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg\/1200px-Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg 1.5x, \/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c0\/Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg\/1600px-Canada_Ottawa_Panorama.jpg 2x\" width=\"800\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: Wikimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I was surprised to find out that a couple of runs in Somersault&#8217;s extensive race series had been cancelled. \u00a0One was their Day Before Mother&#8217;s Day Race, which had distances of 1k, 3k, 5k, 10k and half marathon. \u00a0I had planned on doing either the half or the 10 so was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}