{"id":26186,"date":"2018-07-21T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=26186"},"modified":"2018-07-21T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T02:19:38","slug":"july-21-2018-prepping-for-tomorrows-big-sky-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=26186","title":{"rendered":"July 21, 2018 &#8211; Prepping For Tomorrow\u2019s Big Sky Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the course overview provided in the runners information packet for tomorrow&#8217;s Big Sky Marathon.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not great at math&#8230; as repeatedly evidenced by my ongoing attempts to relearn Algebra I and II to help stave off memory loss.\u00a0 I&#8217;m&#8230; not great at solving for X.\u00a0 Or Y.\u00a0 And Z?\u00a0 Forget about it.<\/p>\n<p>But even I know that the range below is a bit&#8230; mathematically troubling.\u00a0 Also troubling as it all kind of makes my head explode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26276 size-full\" style=\"border: 3px solid #c0c0c0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098.jpeg 875w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098-300x247.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098-768x631.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098-660x542.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8CFA4480-5CC1-4FA7-851C-E2D25D679098-450x370.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Section One is estimated to be between 8 to 10 miles.\u00a0 And Section Two is estimated to be 4 to 7 miles (that&#8217;s a big range).\u00a0 And then Section Three is 10 to 12 miles.<\/p>\n<p>That means the 26.2 mile marathon course could be as short as 22 miles&#8230; and as long as 29 miles.\u00a0 I know the distance fluctuated in the past but we can blame the Queen of England for our current standard.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I guess I feel like maybe the estimates shouldn&#8217;t be that wide of a range.\u00a0 If you take the averages of the ranges we&#8217;re closer &#8212; 9 + 5.5 + 11 would make 25.5 miles.\u00a0 But this all still feels like I&#8217;m trying to teach myself that freakin&#8217; algebra all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.\u00a0 Maybe I should flip a coin about tomorrow.\u00a0 I think I have my lucky double-headed 50 cent piece with me.\u00a0 Now all I need to do is ask the right question.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the course overview provided in the runners information packet for tomorrow&#8217;s Big Sky Marathon.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not great at math&#8230; as repeatedly evidenced by my ongoing attempts to relearn Algebra I and II to help stave off memory loss.\u00a0 I&#8217;m&#8230; not great at solving for X.\u00a0 Or Y.\u00a0 And Z?\u00a0 Forget about it. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186","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=26186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}