{"id":38403,"date":"2021-04-20T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=38403"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:17:12","slug":"the-hunt-for-blue-and-yellow-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=38403","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt for Blue and Yellow October"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38413 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2876\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM.png 2876w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-1024x231.png 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-768x174.png 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-1536x347.png 1536w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-2048x463.png 2048w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-660x149.png 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-20-at-9.48.26-AM-450x102.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2876px) 100vw, 2876px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>What&#8217;s a couple hundred bucks amongst friends, right?<br \/><br \/>I declined the $13 &#8220;registration insurance&#8221; fee because it felt like an unlikely number to be paying. Superstitions run strong amongst runners&#8230; amongst us all.<\/p>\r\n<p>My qualifying time isn&#8217;t great and I may not make the cut off. They&#8217;ve capped the field at 20,000 in person&#8230; and altered a lot of elements of race day to accommodate Covid-19 protocols. To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure logistically how this is going to work as I&#8217;m not entirely clear on how the buses can get to Hopkinton if the race is on. But these folks clearly have a plan.<br \/><br \/>Fingers crossed I make it in&#8230; and then fingers crossed the world doesn&#8217;t end&#8230; and then fingers crossed the world is in a place where a large marathon can occur&#8230; and then&#8230; and then&#8230; and then&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<p>October 11, 2021. \u00a0Who knows what the future holds?<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38412 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon.png 800w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon-768x130.png 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon-660x111.png 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/125th-BAA-Marathon-450x76.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a couple hundred bucks amongst friends, right? I declined the $13 &#8220;registration insurance&#8221; fee because it felt like an unlikely number to be paying. Superstitions run strong amongst runners&#8230; amongst us all. My qualifying time isn&#8217;t great and I may not make the cut off. They&#8217;ve capped the field at 20,000 in person&#8230; and [&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-38403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403","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=38403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38414,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions\/38414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}