{"id":30,"date":"2006-07-04T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T22:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-01-22T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:43:00","slug":"ten-k-finisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2006\/07\/04\/ten-k-finisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Point Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img id=\"image31\" alt=\"Running Shoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/RunningShoe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did it! The 10k was so much fun. The start is just down the street from us, and right before we walked out the door, a small but juicy rainstorm rained briefly down. That was bizarre but actually quite welcome because I&#8217;d been worried it would be really hot &#8211; we had record breaking high temps last week. So, I stayed cool, managed not to choke myself at the water stations, and just kept running! My finishing time was 1:10:40. That&#8217;s an 11.4-minute-mile pace, so I had a lot of people passing me, especially at the start since BN and I stood in the 8-minute mile starting zone. However, I was passing people on the hill, and not just the ones who dropped down to a walk. I trained on that hill 2 or 3 times a week for several months, and today I totally breezed up it. Rock on!<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed being in the festive, 4th-of-July crowd, though I wouldn&#8217;t want that many people around every time I run, especially since I&#8217;m slow and much of the route was clogged with the &#8220;4.5 mile mayor&#8217;s fitness walk&#8221; contingent who didn&#8217;t seem to realize that there were runners wanting to sidle by on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The city seems a lot smaller when you run across it rather than driving&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can we do it again next weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it! The 10k was so much fun. The start is just down the street from us, and right <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}