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<\/a><\/p>\r\nThe route was wonky. \u00a0Both for the drive into the parking lot and on the course itself. \u00a0Some changes must have been made since prior years because I don’t remember all the detours. \u00a0Plus, I think the running route was long. \u00a0While I’m sure we ping-ponged a bit to catch a character photo op and to duck and weave the crowd, it seems unlikely we’d be half a mile long. \u00a0But maybe? \u00a0Who knows?<\/p>\r\n
I do know my leg is neither better nor worse for having run — the pain remains and it’s roughly the same standing, walking, or running. \u00a0It moves around the leg, meaning again that probably nothing’s broken or stress fractured but that there is something off. \u00a0Overuse and over-compensation for a minor pain that just can’t quite seem to get right. \u00a0And that’s with having taken some time off from running the past few weeks. \u00a0One can only wonder how the half marathon and full marathon will go this weekend… but those are problems for another day. \u00a0Namely tomorrow and Sunday. \u00a0So, push that off until then, yeah? \u00a0That’s healthy.<\/p>\r\n
Besides, I have another PT appointment for Monday so, ya know, any issues can be addressed then. \u00a0For now? \u00a0Well, onward.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
The 10K theme? \u00a0A Mystery – supposedly of the missing acorns but that wasn’t really carried through the race. \u00a0Unless you count the finisher shirt which shows Dale has eaten all the acorns, which, okay, sure. \u00a0But mainly it was a race with various “mystery” elements to it. \u00a0Sadly, nary a sighting of Basil of […]<\/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-44087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087","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=44087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44143,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087\/revisions\/44143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a>\u00a0<\/a> <\/a><\/a> <\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a> <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"