{"id":15001,"date":"2017-08-27T01:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T05:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2017-08-27T01:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T05:29:34","slug":"the-bali-marathon-august-26-2017-a-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=15001","title":{"rendered":"The Bali Marathon \u2013 August 26, 2017 \u2013 A Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Road To Bali was longer than you might have imagined. After walking the 2 KM to the shuttle pickup, we rode out to the start line\u2026 sorta. We rode out to a holding pen for the buses and then were told we\u2019d get on minibuses that would take us the rest of the way\u2026 only ours weren\u2019t there when we arrived.<\/p>\n

A nice guy from Indonesia, I think his name was Dee Jay as that was on his bib… but that obviously could’ve been a nickname… or his occupation, helped translate for me. Dee Jay said we were better off just walking it because who knew when the mini buses might arrive. So we walked. In a little while a mini bus did pull up and people piled in\u2026 including my friend from Indonesia. Unfortunately, as is often my luck, I was the “just behind the last person to board” and the mini bus was full up, as people were already dangling off the sides. I figured I\u2019d just walk if it wasn\u2019t too far\u2026 but it was.<\/p>\n

And there was little to no help from the various volunteers I did stumble across in the darkness of 4:07 AM; my Indonesian is worse than my Vietnamese and the volunteers didn\u2019t have a lot of English. I tried gesticulating the difference between near and far, a lame approximation of the classic Grover sketch from Sesame Street to ask if it was a long way to the start as I\u2019d been walking for quite some time. Maybe Grover isn\u2019t big in Bali. Or maybe I\u2019m no Frank Oz. Scratch that — I’m DEFINITELY no Frank Oz. If only!<\/p>\n

Eventually a shuttle bus did stop and pick me up\u2026 and drove me 20 meters to the drop off point. Swell.<\/p>\n

I was in a snit at the start\u2026 and even more in a snit as the minibus drop off was still a good kilometer from the start line proper.<\/p>\n

All told, I logged probably 5 miles before the race even started.<\/p>\n

All of this is just a preview of coming attractions for when I do sit down and try and bang out the summary. It got better. Honest.<\/p>\n

To prove it, here\u2019s a shot of me at the finish.<\/p>\n

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Hey Mr. Parrot. You and I have a lot in common. You like to talk and I like to prattle on to the point of losing the plot. Say hi to your mother for me.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Road To Bali was longer than you might have imagined. After walking the 2 KM to the shuttle pickup, we rode out to the start line\u2026 sorta. We rode out to a holding pen for the buses and then were told we\u2019d get on minibuses that would take us the rest of the way\u2026 […]<\/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-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","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=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}