{"id":26641,"date":"2018-08-04T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=26641"},"modified":"2018-08-04T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T21:10:50","slug":"rock-the-ocean-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=26641","title":{"rendered":"Rock the Ocean Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a numbers game.<\/p>\r\n

6.6.<\/strong> \u00a0That\u2019s the round trip distance of each loop… a bit longer than the advertised 6.55 miles, at least according to my Garmin watch.<\/p>\r\n

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4.<\/strong> \u00a0That\u2019s the number of loops to get to a marathon distance… or beyond given the aforementioned GPS watch readings. \u00a0But my Garmin is prone to +\/- a surprisingly large margin of error.<\/p>\r\n

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3 (-ish).<\/strong> \u00a0That\u2019s the number of water bottles I drank during the run. \u00a0I had crumpled the sides of the plastic bottom in a death grip so it wasn\u2019t an exact refill at various water fountains. \u00a0Whatever the volume of water it turned out to be, it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\r\n

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39,106.<\/strong> \u00a0That\u2019s the approximate number of steps closer I am to Pike\u2019s Peak as my 400th marathon.<\/p>\r\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0 That’s where I placed today.<\/p>\r\n

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***<\/p>\r\n

It’s amazing who you bump into at a Charlie Alewine Race.\u00a0 Great running with you today, Dee Dee!\u00a0 And thanks to you and all your support staff, Charlie!<\/p>\r\n

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I’ve been here before.\u00a0 I’ve run this course more than a few times.\u00a0 But I ran it today to get to 399 lifetime marathons.<\/p>\r\n

Pike’s Peak… gulp… here I come.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a numbers game. 6.6. \u00a0That\u2019s the round trip distance of each loop… a bit longer than the advertised 6.55 miles, at least according to my Garmin watch. 4. \u00a0That\u2019s the number of loops to get to a marathon distance… or beyond given the aforementioned GPS watch readings. \u00a0But my Garmin is prone to +\/- […]<\/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-26641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641","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=26641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}