{"id":29310,"date":"2018-10-07T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=29310"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:05:21","slug":"the-long-beach-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=29310","title":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago my brother and I ran the Long Beach half marathon. \u00a0I can\u2019t recall why we did the half, whether it was before I felt like I could run a bunch of marathons a year or if we were using it as a training run. \u00a0Part of me feels like I had to fly out to England that evening for work so wasn\u2019t sure we\u2019d have time to do the full. \u00a0I recently read a book that dropped a statistic saying about 30% of our memories are false, and not even the Shazam\/Kazam variety but straight up wrong. \u00a0Though I can\u2019t remember where I read that or what the source was … So maybe that is just a fraction of the 30% false memories I carry. \u00a0But if that\u2019s true, then I\u2019m in an infinite feedback paradox loop and the world will probably end. \u00a0Given the current state of the world maybe it already has.<\/p>\n

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I do know that Steve and I ran it so long ago that I still have a disposable camera we took with us on the day. \u00a0It sits on my desk, four exposures remaining on the roll. \u00a0I don\u2019t even know where I could get that developer these days.<\/p>\n

But I did buy a couple commemorative official running photos of that 2009 day:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But today in 2018 I ran the full 26.2 mile Long Beach Marathon. \u00a0Rather than write up or post even a ton of photos, here\u2019s a brief text exchange with my brother after it was all said and run:<\/p>\n

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I’d actually run a few segments as part of the Charlie Alewine Races I’ve occasionally done.\u00a0 So those beach area bike paths I knew very, very well.\u00a0 Outside of that, it just was… meh.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s five photos from the day to play us out:<\/p>\n

The start line.
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I offered to take a photo for these guys; they were so happy that they insisted I get in one with them.
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Sunrise on the bike path.
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This is at the CalState Long Beach campus… but I just loved the notion of “Go Beach!”
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Obligatory finish line photo.
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Years ago my brother and I ran the Long Beach half marathon. \u00a0I can\u2019t recall why we did the half, whether it was before I felt like I could run a bunch of marathons a year or if we were using it as a training run. \u00a0Part of me feels like I had to fly […]<\/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-29310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29310","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=29310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}