{"id":42560,"date":"2023-10-15T09:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=42560"},"modified":"2023-10-15T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T13:10:23","slug":"the-lake-tahoe-marathon-day-3-of-the-tahoe-triple-marathon-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=42560","title":{"rendered":"The Lake Tahoe Marathon &#8211; Day 3 of the Tahoe Triple Marathon Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no Day 3 for me.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I did not start.\u00a0 I did not finish.\u00a0 I did not complete the Tahoe Triple Marathon challenge.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started this trip wracked with fear.\u00a0 But fear has an expiration date \u2013 eventually fear gives way to what we dreaded would happen or subsides when it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But failure?\u00a0 Failure doesn\u2019t go away. \u00a0Failure is forever. \u00a0It\u2019s a weight clamped around your neck, your ankle, your soul.\u00a0 And it doesn\u2019t go away.\u00a0 Because failure just is.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that\u2019s what this weekend turned out to be.\u00a0 A failure.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wasn\u2019t trained properly.\u00a0 My quads are shredded and my body just couldn\u2019t face another 26.2 miles.\u00a0 And my health is such that I have sent a message to a doctor asking if it\u2019s possible to contract bronchitis or pneumonia when you already taking antibiotics for strep throat.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All excuses.\u00a0 But the reality is, this was a waste of a weekend, in mind, body, and soul.\u00a0 I failed and it feels lousy.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no Day 3 for me. I did not start.\u00a0 I did not finish.\u00a0 I did not complete the Tahoe Triple Marathon challenge. I started this trip wracked with fear.\u00a0 But fear has an expiration date \u2013 eventually fear gives way to what we dreaded would happen or subsides when it doesn\u2019t. But failure?\u00a0 [&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-42560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42560","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=42560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42613,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42560\/revisions\/42613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}