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<\/a>Knowing that the previous miles would now be building not to a qualifying time but to a not-qualifying time, I struggled even more than perhaps my body intended.
It was a bummer. Felt like the whole weekend was a waste of time, money, and energy.
A lot of things of late have felt like that. I thought I had things in hand and figured out and then\u2026 well\u2026 it just didn\u2019t matter.
In the big scheme of things this all doesn\u2019t even rank a footnote to the world\u2019s troubles far and wide.
But it mattered to me. And it was a huge disappointment.
To give some perspective, last week I was 2nd in my age group with a slightly slower time than what I finished up with at Mt Charleston. But here I was 51st in my age bracket.<\/p>\r\n
Nope. Didn\u2019t happen. I didn\u2019t BQ. And I realized I wasn\u2019t going to around mile 20 when the 3:10 pace group caught up to me and passed me, disappearing into the horizon as I found myself hobbling a bit here and there. Knowing that the previous miles would now be building not to a qualifying […]<\/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-40239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239","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=40239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40279,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions\/40279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
A lot of people qualified for Boston here\u2026 I wasn\u2019t one of them.
After a long, lonely drive home (lonely despite a lot of traffic leading to near-misses and delays), I got home and tried to come up with a \u201cshucks, them\u2019s the breaks\u201d post, trying to focus on rising sun photos from the course. I thought I\u2019d do something akin to \u201cas the sun rose, my chances for Boston fell\u201d or some such pseudo-clever phrasing.
But alas even my web server was down. There was a big storm and we lost power\u2026 so I\u2019m not sure if my home web server is fried or just needs to be reconnected somehow. Honestly, I was a bit too flustered with the day\u2019s death by the thousand papercuts to try and troubleshoot.
Today, I\u2019m still not sure what is wrong. Eventually this post will go up with a few odd photos\u2026 but just as I felt with the Mt Charleston Marathon itself, it really doesn\u2019t matter. Time\u2019s arrow and all that.<\/p>\r\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"