{"id":43567,"date":"2024-11-10T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=43567"},"modified":"2024-11-10T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T00:10:02","slug":"santa-clarita-marathon-a-means-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=43567","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clarita Marathon – A Means To An End"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

This was never going to be a PR or even a BQ race for me. I’m in the final throes of a head cold, I’m undertrained and over-stressed. The goal for today was simple: sweat out as many germs as I could, get to the finish line, have some street tacos.

And by that standard, it was a resounding success. Was I a cheetah? No. I was more a Baymax. Was the course life-re-defining? No, but it was a pleasant way to spend a Sunday — a bike path near Magic Mountain, out and about in the world. It was more of a loneliness of the long-distance runner vibe given the sparse field (especially on the second loop of the two loop course). I was just slightly off pace with folks so there seemed to be long stretches of… wide open paths.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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I didn’t take many photos — though I did snap a shot of this “course landmark.” \u00a0It’s been a minute since I had such a delightful course instruction: “At the polar bear, take a left.” \u00a0And sure enough: Polar Bear.<\/p>\r\n

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The day happened, I ran, and most importantly, this race organization prides itself on having a taco truck at the finish… so I got my street tacos in the end. \u00a0And that’s not nothing.<\/p>\r\n

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How this all rolls into next Saturday’s REVEL race at Big Bear is TBD… and honestly you can feel great and have a lousy run and feel lousy and have a great run. \u00a0The general ennui I’m feeling means I’ll most likely have an ennui run… but even that is better than no run.<\/p>\r\n

To the final race of 2024… and maybe not a moment too soon. \u00a0My legs are tired. \u00a0My body is tired. \u00a0I’m just tired.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was never going to be a PR or even a BQ race for me. I’m in the final throes of a head cold, I’m undertrained and over-stressed. The goal for today was simple: sweat out as many germs as I could, get to the finish line, have some street tacos. And by that standard, […]<\/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-43567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567","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=43567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}