{"id":31317,"date":"2019-04-13T23:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=31317"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T03:37:04","slug":"april-13-2019-the-16th-annual-salt-lake-city-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=31317","title":{"rendered":"April 13, 2019 – The 16th Annual Salt Lake City Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

If today proved anything, it’s that my Wild West gunfighter name would have been “Hobble-Along Hanna.”<\/p>\n

Three fellow runners asked how I was feeling given that I was limping.\u00a0 One guy even said to me, “Being 50 sucks, doesn’t it?”\u00a0 Which means I look way worse than I feared.\u00a0 I guess in some ways I *am* pushing 50, but I prefer to cling to my early 40s moniker a bit longer.<\/p>\n

I won’t bore with details of aches and pains.\u00a0 I’ll only say that my leg hurt from the first stride off the starting line … but no worse than the last few races.\u00a0 The balls of my feet and my toes would occasionally tingle with needle prick pains but never got as bad as the LA mileage.\u00a0 That said, I was incredibly slow for me… and only got slower as the day wore on.<\/p>\n

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In the final miles, I just couldn’t run anymore.\u00a0 Yes, I was hurting but no worse really than earlier.\u00a0 But my heart and body just couldn’t get in synch.\u00a0 I simply physically couldn’t run anymore.\u00a0 I hobble and walked the last 3 miles or so without ever taking a running stride.\u00a0 My fitness level has disintegrated.\u00a0 My stamina has been stymied by lack of training.\u00a0 It all goes so quickly.\u00a0 What had taken years to build up has collapsed in three weeks.\u00a0 That realization, more so than the pain in my leg or feet, was the greatest debilitation of the day… and perhaps beyond.<\/p>\n

I’ll go see a new chiropractor\/sports medicine person on Monday to see what he or she can do for me.<\/p>\n

I finished, slower than I’d have liked, with greater struggles than I anticipated.\u00a0 But I finished.\u00a0 I’m not much worse for wear, though I am hobbling as many do after a marathon.\u00a0 It’s just prior to this year, it had been ages since races did such a number on me.\u00a0 I’m undertrained, overweight, and compromised.\u00a0 But I still got to the finish.\u00a0 So there’s that.<\/p>\n

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A few photos from along the way… and a 15 year flashback for good measure.\u00a0 See if you can spot the shot from days of yore.<\/p>\n

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If today proved anything, it’s that my Wild West gunfighter name would have been “Hobble-Along Hanna.” Three fellow runners asked how I was feeling given that I was limping.\u00a0 One guy even said to me, “Being 50 sucks, doesn’t it?”\u00a0 Which means I look way worse than I feared.\u00a0 I guess in some ways I […]<\/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-31317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317","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=31317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}