{"id":4220,"date":"2016-07-27T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2016-07-27T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T16:51:52","slug":"seven-seven-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"Seven&#8230; Seven&#8230; Seven!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Savage is a guy I know. He&#8217;s great.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen him at races and I&#8217;ve run a few of the events he directs. In fact, I finished my 50sub4 quest with two of his events.<\/p>\n<p>For the last few years he&#8217;s put on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savagesevenmarathons2014.com\/index.html\">Savage Seven race series in Ocala, Florida<\/a>. It&#8217;s a daily race challenge that starts on December 26th and goes through New Year&#8217;s Day. In 2013, I signed up for one day of the series but was injured and had to eat the $100 registration fee.<\/p>\n<p>But this year is the seventh annual event. Seven years. Seven Marathons. Seven Days. It seems like fate is knocking on the door and wants me to answer.<\/p>\n<p>The big warning flags on the series are that it&#8217;d be seven days of 3 hour round trips from my house to the race site in Ocala, and there&#8217;d be turnpike fees every single time. And of course on top of that is the fact that it would be another 7 marathons. Hmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly taken with the fact that Chuck operates such a small team of runners and volunteers that errors like this slip through. As a guy who recently ordered his own swag with a small color mismatch because I forgot to check Newfoundland, mistakes happen. But I also like to think this isn&#8217;t a mistake, that Chuck and his crew have traveled back in time to paradoxically end the series before it even starts.\u00a0 The Savage Seven &#8212; 2105 &#8211; 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAVAGE-SEVEN-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4226 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAVAGE-SEVEN-2015.jpg\" alt=\"SAVAGE SEVEN 2015\" width=\"250\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAVAGE-SEVEN-2015.jpg 250w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAVAGE-SEVEN-2015-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAVAGE-SEVEN-2015-230x277.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was all about the temptation of the Philadelphia Marathon. I haven&#8217;t heard back from the race director regarding my &#8220;that guy&#8221; request for special treatment in obtaining a race day bib pickup. As a result, I&#8217;ve booked a Southwest flight back home from the Mainly Marathon series and currently it does NOT go through Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Cooler heads prevailing? Not if I&#8217;m about to sign up for another seven day series. But it seems like a good way to close out 2016 and start 2017. Or maybe to finish up 2106 and being 2017.\u00a0 Either way it&#8217;s six races in one year and one in the new.\u00a0 Temptation has a new name&#8230; and it&#8217;s going to be savage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Savage is a guy I know. He&#8217;s great.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen him at races and I&#8217;ve run a few of the events he directs. In fact, I finished my 50sub4 quest with two of his events. For the last few years he&#8217;s put on the Savage Seven race series in Ocala, Florida. It&#8217;s a daily [&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":[782,781,145,190,783,41],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-year","tag-savage","tag-series","tag-seven","tag-temptation","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","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=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}