{"id":23467,"date":"2018-03-23T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=23467"},"modified":"2018-03-23T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:06:19","slug":"march-23-2018-chili-pepper-series-day-3-las-cruces-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=23467","title":{"rendered":"March 23, 2018 – Chili Pepper Series Day 3 – Las Cruces, NM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ouch.\u00a0 My quads, or if you want to get technical my quadriceps femoris<\/em>, are killing me.\u00a0 They were hurting BEFORE I started running today, day 3 of the Chili Pepper Series.\u00a0 Cime to think of it, it’s a series I\u2019m convinced should actually be spelled \u201cChile Pepper Series\u201d but honestly that\u2019s only in my head in an effort to focus on something else.\u00a0 The main takeaway from my quads being \u201cen fuego\u201d is that the brain can only handle so many pain sensations at any one time\u2026 thus my back\/ribs are numb and ignored in favor of the quads crying out in agony\u2026 and in anger at me for continuing to put them through 26.2 miles each day.<\/p>\n

Suck it up, quads.\u00a0 You got two more days\u2026 and only one of them is really, really, ridiculously hard.<\/p>\n

A woman joined the series today doing a 50K.\u00a0 I was able to keep pace with her for 5 or 6 loops and then she pulled ahead of me.\u00a0 Some folks who knew I was on Day 3 asked me if they should \u201cNancy Kerrigan\u201d the new girl.\u00a0 I politely declined.<\/p>\n

In the end I was just under 3:45 for the day.\u00a0 But I\u2019m hurting.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll see what I feel like in the morning but I am a little worried about this Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon on Sunday.<\/p>\n

I picked up my packet down at White Sands Missile Range, the site of the race.\u00a0 They tell me I should leave Las Cruces at 4 AM to allow for traffic at the base’s main gate due to SOP security procedures.\u00a0 The line up is at 6 AM and the jets will fly over around 7:05 am to start us off on the long march\/marathon.<\/p>\n

I ran this event in 2012 and it was a tough, tough day.\u00a0 I recall somewhere in 20s mile markers there being a long, long stretch in a sand pit.<\/p>\n

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Bataan Memorial Death March – March 2012<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But when I think about what our servicemen endured in Bataan 76 years ago, I really can\u2019t complain.\u00a0 It\u2019s a humbling, moving experience doing this race.\u00a0 In 2012 there were a handful of survivors of the Death March who would welcome us at the finish line.\u00a0 I hear we are down to two heroes who will be cheering us on\u2026 if that\u2019s not motivating I\u2019m not sure what would be.<\/p>\n

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Bataan Memorial Death March – March 2018<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ouch.\u00a0 My quads, or if you want to get technical my quadriceps femoris, are killing me.\u00a0 They were hurting BEFORE I started running today, day 3 of the Chili Pepper Series.\u00a0 Cime to think of it, it’s a series I\u2019m convinced should actually be spelled \u201cChile Pepper Series\u201d but honestly that\u2019s only in my head […]<\/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-23467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467","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=23467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}