Zion at Night Half Marathon

A Race Saver!

Earlier this year I ran the Zion at Night Half Marathon in Apple Valley, Utah. Before the race, I decided to download the Avenza Maps app and it turned out to be a race saver! This was my first experience with the app and I’ll definitely use it again. Around mile six a small group of runners (myself included) unknowingly got off course at a fork in the trail. After a few minutes I didn’t notice any race markers so I pulled up my location on the app. Sure enough, it confirmed that we had made the wrong turn! I attempted to explain to a few passing runners that we needed to backtrack to the fork in the trail, but for some odd reason they continued in the wrong direction. If they would have used the Avenza Maps app, their race would have been a lot better experience!