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<\/a><\/p>\nIn the virtual realm of file folders, I searched for some photos from those events. It was a beautiful day in Memphis … and a cold, rainy day in Texas. I guess that’s what you get for doing December marathons. You never know what the weather holds on any given day… but as I scrolled through the images of that weekend, the cold chill of a Texas winter chilled me even six plus years later. Memory is a powerful thing.<\/p>\n
I also used to scan in my medals to archive them for a visual reference. This was long before runkevinrun.com became the viral antithesis of a sensation… an internet ho-hum-numb? Why I thought scanning in medals was a good idea I’m not entirely sure — but, hey, the images are on my hard drive so why not put them up here on the dot com?<\/p>\n
In the intervening years I’ve done more than a few double marathon weekends. I’ve done multi-day series. I’ve done multi-national weekends and cross-continent swings to run coast to coast in 28 hours or so. It’s just what I do. So maybe that’s why I used to collect paperwork and throw things into file folders. As I said yesterday, it’s kinda who I am, and maybe what I am is a pack rat. I’m a long way from hoarders albeit I do need to winnow and declutter.<\/p>\n But given this is sorta my “legacy,” well, here are a few last-minute uploads of a long thought lost weekend of running:<\/p>\n As I was flipping through tangible manila file folders yesterday, I came across the very first time I did a “double” marathon weekend. It was in December 2011 and I was seeing how I would handle the stress of back-to-back marathons. But I couldn’t make it TOO easy on me so I wound up doing […]<\/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-21288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288","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=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"