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<\/a><\/p>\nOn the plus side, thanks in part to the two prior years’ events being cancelled at the last minute, the field was apparently quite small. How do I know this? Besides the bib numbers topping out at 1700 for ALL distances (5K, 5 miler, half marathon, marathon, and ULTRA 50K), I also know for a fact that it had to be a small field because I placed second overall.<\/p>\n
This isn’t even a “would you believe…” comedy setup. I really did place 2nd overall. Huh.<\/p>\n
There was a 3:15 pacer and I never saw him again after we started so I assumed I was either just ahead or way behind him. I was making better time in the opening half and slowed considerably in the back 10. I want to say it’s because of a series of pedestrian bridges over the highway (I lost track after 3… I think there were 6 but like in the original Dirty Harry, in all the excitement I lost track).<\/p>\n
The reality is, I ran as fast as I could and it just wasn’t quite a BQ pace.<\/p>\n
There weren’t a lot of runners around me. Long stretches felt like it was just me alone huffing and puffing along like a little engine that might. I could’ve maybe paced a bit faster but that seems inconceivable to me — I was struggling there for a good long while. Would you believe I was a little engine that choked?<\/p>\n
In any case, some photos from the run to illustrate the above without thousands and thousands of more words:<\/p>\n
I’m a bit zonked at the moment and having some trouble composing coherent thoughts, let alone getting words to appear in any semblance of readability.\u00a0 I might revisit a few stray thoughts from today later… or I might just let this stand.<\/p>\n The old “promise one thing but never mention it again” trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, I ran the Clearwater Distance Classic Marathon in 3:15:26, 26 seconds over a BQ time: On the plus side, thanks in part to the two prior years’ events being cancelled at the last minute, the field was apparently quite small. How do I know this? Besides the bib numbers topping out at 1700 […]<\/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-21290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290","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=21290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n