{"id":4797,"date":"2016-08-30T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2016-08-30T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:00:56","slug":"the-joys-of-getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"The Joys Of Getting Old?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rolling Stones are usually right, especially about\u00a0getting old. But every so often there’s a slight silver lining to the grey hairs. Maybe it’s a free pancake breakfast at Denny’s. Or… No, that’s usually about all to look forward when the age odometer clicks over another year. After 25 when you can rent a car for less, there aren’t a lot of favorable milestone firsts with each new year.<\/p>\n

But after overhearing at the Santa Rosa Marathon that last year Boston Qualifiers needed more than 2:30 under the cutoff time to hopefully ensure entry, I was feeling bummed since my best (and only) BQ time was 1:39 under the cut off.<\/p>\n

But I just used the BAA qualifying calculator… And because I’m turning 40 before the 2017 race day, my time counts within my new demographic band.<\/p>\n

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So now I’m over 6 minutes under the cutoff. Being old means I may get to run Boston after all.<\/p>\n

I wonder if there’ll be pancakes afterwards? Even if they’re not free, I just may treat myself.<\/p>\n

I’m old. \u00a0I get to eat what I want, right? \u00a0Oh… I’m supposed to watch my cholesterol and avoid fatty foods and I should cutback on Diet Coke?<\/p>\n

Man, what a drag it is getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rolling Stones are usually right, especially about\u00a0getting old. But every so often there’s a slight silver lining to the grey hairs. Maybe it’s a free pancake breakfast at Denny’s. Or… No, that’s usually about all to look forward when the age odometer clicks over another year. After 25 when you can rent a car […]<\/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-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","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=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}