{"id":26840,"date":"2018-08-20T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=26840"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:36:12","slug":"pikes-peak-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=26840","title":{"rendered":"Pikes Peak Post-Mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pikes Peak Marathon has a very strict 10 hour cut-off.\u00a0 If you come back down the mountain and cross the finish line at 10:00:01, you get disqualified and listed as a DNF — Did Not Finish.<\/p>\n

This year, the last person under the cutoff placed 666th.\u00a0 That’s not ominous at all.\u00a0 It’s just a number, right?<\/p>\n

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I came in 206th overall:<\/p>\n

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The race organization has my split times broken out into various components but rather than toss a melange of numbers onto the page inspired by the likes of Jackson Pollock , I thought a graphical representation would better serve here.<\/p>\n

The image below then comes from the data on my Garmin watch… which BARELY made it through the whole ordeal on a single charge.\u00a0 I think I was down to 11% when I finished… which is kinda ironic as I was personally well below that number energy wise.<\/p>\n

In any case, here’s the elevation chart juxtaposed with my pace.\u00a0 It’s… illustrative.<\/p>\n

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This is the story I should tell; sure, there’s more that *could* be said, but given that I already invoked Hamlet’s parting words yesterday, perhaps I should just type: exeunt omnes<\/em>… and hasta la vista<\/em>, as Mexico City is the next race being run.<\/p>\n

Until we meet again… adios.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pikes Peak Marathon has a very strict 10 hour cut-off.\u00a0 If you come back down the mountain and cross the finish line at 10:00:01, you get disqualified and listed as a DNF — Did Not Finish. This year, the last person under the cutoff placed 666th.\u00a0 That’s not ominous at all.\u00a0 It’s just a number, […]<\/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-26840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26840","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=26840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}