{"id":273,"date":"2009-01-03T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-04-21T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T23:42:45","slug":"beginning-and-ending-of-austin-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/2009\/01\/beginning-and-ending-of-austin-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning and Ending of Austin Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran the first and last miles of the Austin Marathon today. Our training group, that is, the beginners, were supposed to run 16 miles, but I decided I needed to up it to 18 miles, that is, what the intermediates were supposed to run. So now you should be saying. Why are you running 18 miles when you&#8217;re not planning on running the marathon? That&#8217;s an interesting question and one I really can&#8217;t answer. All I can say is that I had planned to do all the training, but not run the marathon so I&#8217;m still doing that. Note a few days ago I signed up for the last three races of the year &#8211; the RunTex Twenty, the 3M Half Marathon, and the Austin HALF Marathon (yes, only the half &#8211; I&#8217;m retired from the running the marathon). Since I was doing 20 miles next weekend I decided that I should do 18 miles to prepare for the race next weekend. Whatever that means. Yet I&#8217;m having misgivings now about signing up for the RunTex Twenty. I don&#8217;t know what got into me. That&#8217;s 20, two-zero, miles. But what is done is done. Now I have to follow through. Back to the run today&#8230; During an early part of today&#8217;s run I caught up and passed Sadie saying hello on the way by. Then near the end she caught up to me at a water stop and asked how old I was. I told her 59 and she said that it was remarkable (or something like that). Well a few minutes later and about a half mile down the road I was beat, started to walk and Sadie yelled at me and spurred me on to start running again. Thank you Sadie I needed that. I finished in 2:47 for 18.3 miles or about 9:08\/mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran the first and last miles of the Austin Marathon today. Our training group, that is, the beginners, were supposed to run 16 miles, but I decided I needed to up it to 18 miles, that is, what the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/2009\/01\/beginning-and-ending-of-austin-marathon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}