{"id":14798,"date":"2017-08-14T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=14798"},"modified":"2017-08-14T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T18:49:00","slug":"a-second-five-year-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=14798","title":{"rendered":"A Second Five Year Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was the first time I qualified for Boston. I then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=11303\">ran it in April<\/a>, five years after I had been able to participate in the marathon as part of the Children&#8217;s Hospital charity team.<\/p>\n<p>I received a reminder notice from the Boston Athletic Association that the 2018 registration is coming up. I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=12435\">a pretty good qualifying time from Michigan<\/a> and could if I registered be virtually assured of a bib.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14811 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-921x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210.jpg 921w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-830x923.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-230x256.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_2210-350x389.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\" \/><\/a>It will be five years since the horrific Boston Marathon terrorist bombing of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to go. It feels important.\u00a0 And honestly, who knows how many more BQ times I have in me?<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a part of me that thinks maybe I should let somebody else get a chance to run Boston. Is it selfish to take a slot when I was so very lucky to get to run it this year?<\/p>\n<p>I have some time to decide &#8212; my registration date isn&#8217;t until September 13th.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could always flip a coin.<\/p>\n<p>And I *DO* have one of those double sided coins. Hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-830x1107.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_8957-350x467.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was the first time I qualified for Boston. I then ran it in April, five years after I had been able to participate in the marathon as part of the Children&#8217;s Hospital charity team. I received a reminder notice from the Boston Athletic Association that the 2018 registration is coming up. I&#8217;ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}