{"id":41029,"date":"2022-09-11T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=41029"},"modified":"2022-09-11T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T17:41:20","slug":"never-a-dull-moment-at-the-boring-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=41029","title":{"rendered":"Never A Dull Moment at The Boring Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An hour before my flight to Portland yesterday, as i sat in the LAX remote terminal gate area, I received this email:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-768x1707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-922x2048.jpg 922w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-830x1844.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-230x511.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-350x778.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook-480x1067.jpg 480w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot_20220910-115347_Outlook.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><br \/><br \/>I debated what to do and finally scrambled to cancel my flights, my rental car and hotel. All told the fees to do so to get e-credit for later use was $40, plus the registration fee for the event itself.\u00a0 I took the bus home.<br \/><br \/>The race director previously had said 2022 might be the last year for the event due to permitting and decreased signups. Now he was offering a deferrment for the cancelled event to 2023. I didn&#8217;t want to pile on troubles to make a difficult situation worse, but felt I did need to ask about the intentions and reality of a deferrment.<\/p>\r\n<p>I have not heard anything back yet, which is understandable given the logistics of canceling an event 18 hours before its scheduled start.<br \/><br \/>I struggled with a run this morning so maybe it&#8217;s all for the best i wasn&#8217;t trying to cover 26.2 miles today.<br \/><br \/>Maybe this is yet another sign that all aspects of my life are in chaos and turmoil.<br \/><br \/>Maybe this is yet anoher sign that I should leave it all behind and seek a great reset.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An hour before my flight to Portland yesterday, as i sat in the LAX remote terminal gate area, I received this email: I debated what to do and finally scrambled to cancel my flights, my rental car and hotel. All told the fees to do so to get e-credit for later use was $40, plus [&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-41029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029","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=41029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41033,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41029\/revisions\/41033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}