{"id":44296,"date":"2026-03-07T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=44296"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:29:51","slug":"lost-city-of-angels-marathon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=44296","title":{"rendered":"Lost City of Angels Marathon 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was supposed to be in LA this weekend.<br \/><br \/>I was supposed to be running the LA Marathon this weekend.<br \/><br \/>Two things can be true and two things can not happen at the same time.<br \/><br \/>The second race I&#8217;ve had to just completely write-off&#8230; and hopefully the last. The other events I&#8217;ve been able to defer at a minimal (and sometimes not-so-minimal) fee. But like the Lost Dutchman, the LA Marathong is a Lost cause.<br \/><br \/>As I endeavor to build back up my cardio and endurance, I had my first &#8220;long&#8221; run of the training regimen this morning. It was five miles. I ran about two before I got winded and had to start walking. I think I started crying around mile 3 out of frustration as I huffed and I puffed and I failed to run the remaining mileage.<br \/><br \/>This is an incredibly difficult time&#8230; due in no small measure to what once was and what I seem so far away from achieving again.<br \/><br \/>I suppose this is the real marathon &#8211; the work required to get back into shape and back out on the road. Was it Taylor Swift or somebody else who said, &#8220;People may envy what we are but they don&#8217;t seem to recognize or envy what it took to get there.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>This is a hard, hard weekend. Physically. Emotionally. And I try and get through it by telling myself I will get through it, that this too shall pass. But it isn&#8217;t always easy to believe that. Especially when the long run of the week was what I used to do as a warm-up run.<br \/><br \/>Injuries are cruel. But time may be the cruelest of all.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to be in LA this weekend. I was supposed to be running the LA Marathon this weekend. Two things can be true and two things can not happen at the same time. The second race I&#8217;ve had to just completely write-off&#8230; and hopefully the last. The other events I&#8217;ve been able to [&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-44296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296","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=44296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44299,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions\/44299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}