{"id":2277,"date":"2012-06-24T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2012-06-24T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T06:22:55","slug":"another-race-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Another Race In The Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, to finish.<\/p>\n<p>I was gonna post this yesterday after the race but was too tired right afterwards and we went out that evening.<\/p>\n<p>My time was not that great, but I feel a lot better with the results of this race than with the Seattle Marathon I did in November 2011.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Results.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2278\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2278\" title=\"RnR2012Results\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Results-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"RnR2012Results\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Results-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Results.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RnR 2012 Results<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was running hurt this time around, also my breathing problems hampered my running. \u00a0But the same issue with cramping still hit me during the race. \u00a0I started cramping at about mile 8, and that is about the time when my speed dropped significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The course was tougher, but there dropoff between last year and this year was significant.<\/p>\n<p>The downtown start in Seattle did add some uncertainty for me, also not researching or tracing the course effected my pace, I seemed to sandbag and not push because I did not know what to expect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2279\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012StartLine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2279\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2279\" title=\"RnR2012StartLine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012StartLine-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"RnR2012StartLine\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012StartLine-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012StartLine.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RnR 2012 Start Line<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Crowds felt smaller this year as well, but that was more anecdotal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Crowd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2280\" title=\"RnR2012Crowd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Crowd.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RnR2012Crowd-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did sign up for next year though, but for now, I am in Post Race mode, where I enjoy life, do some light workouts. \u00a0Just \u00a0did some pushups and situps today, probably the same tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I will chill now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, to finish. I was gonna post this yesterday after the race but was too tired right afterwards and we went out that evening. My time was not that great, but I feel a lot better with the results of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}