{"id":43524,"date":"2024-10-20T21:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=43524"},"modified":"2024-10-20T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:25:38","slug":"kevin-does-des-moines-11-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=43524","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Does Des Moines\u2026 11 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eleven years ago, I ran the I-35 challenge. This is running a marathon in Kansas City, MO, on Saturday, and then driving the 3.5 hours or so to run Des Moines, IA, on Sunday. I was a younger man, and in better shape then. Both of those events way back in 2013 were significantly faster than today\u2019s one and done event in downtown Des Moines.

I started well\u2026 the first half I was on a pace to BQ, staying ahead of the 3:20 pace group. But I quickly fell apart in the back half. I don\u2019t know if it was a low grade dehydration issue or a full disclosure pushing 50 situation. But man did I go from a delirious runner high to a \u201cthis sucks!\u201d quagmire oh so rapidly.

But who cares about any of that? Nobody reads this blog to hear me whine and complain\u2026 but that\u2019s because so few people do read this silly little slice of internet madness.

Point is – some pics\u2026 or it didn\u2019t happen, right? I can assure you it did happen\u2026 just not the way I remembered 11 years ago nor how I was hoping it would go here in 2024.

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You see where they say you should turn around for the race morning toilets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what was behind me. For 7000 runners in various events this morning\u2026 two port-a-Johns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They said there were more than a hundred but I didn\u2019t see them. I saw two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at me at mile 12\u2026 so full of vim. So full of vigor. It would all go wrong soon enough\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was promised brisket at mile 20\u2026 and they delivered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eleven years ago, I ran the I-35 challenge. This is running a marathon in Kansas City, MO, on Saturday, and then driving the 3.5 hours or so to run Des Moines, IA, on Sunday. I was a younger man, and in better shape then. Both of those events way back in 2013 were significantly faster […]<\/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-43524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43524","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=43524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43530,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43524\/revisions\/43530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}