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<\/a><\/p>\nI went to bed before 9PM but I was still pretty darn sleepy when the alarm went off at 4:15AM<\/p>\n
I really really need to prep things the DAY before, not that evening. \u00a0My play list was good and it helped.<\/p>\n
We were a little late getting there, we left the house at 5:20 but was able to get into the garage a little before 6AM. \u00a0We had some time to rest and chill. \u00a0At that time there was ample parking. \u00a0It was $15.<\/p>\n
The route was OK, a downhill run to get moving, \u00a0I looked at my watch and was clocking a little over 15 minute mile. \u00a0Somone lifted the flag for the 2 mile point but it was for the guys behind us running the 15k. \u00a0I knew because as I passed that marker it was 22 minutes so I knew it was wrong.<\/p>\n
My oldest son was in the B Corral and my Daughter was in the E Corral. \u00a0I was way back in the L Corral. \u00a0By the time I got to the start point it was already 30 minutes in and my son was probably coming in by then.<\/p>\n
Overall it was fun, a GREAT started for the running season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although my performance was not that great I am happy with being under 50 minutes. \u00a0That is something to build on this year. I went to bed before 9PM but I was still pretty darn sleepy when the alarm went … Continue reading →<\/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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5k","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","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=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5882,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/5882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}