{"id":5248,"date":"2016-10-07T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2016-10-07T19:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:33:41","slug":"my-first-marathon-bib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=5248","title":{"rendered":"My First Marathon Bib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why we go through boxes before throwing them out, even if they&#8217;ve been sitting in a closet for years gathering dust.<\/p>\n<p>I came across an envelope that said, &#8220;Marathon Stuff&#8221; and inside I found a few pieces from when Steve and I ran the LA Marathon&#8230; and this blast from the past:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5261 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"my-first-marathon-bib-slc-2004-smaller\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-830x833.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-230x231.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER-350x351.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/My-First-Marathon-Bib-SLC-2004-SMALLER.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My very first marathon bib &#8212; heck, my very first racing bib of <em>any<\/em> distance &#8212; the inaugural Salt Lake City Marathon in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>I distinctly remember that I finished the race and sprawled out on the grass, letting the sunlight hit me full in the face like I was Superman seeking healing rays from our Yellow Sun.\u00a0 I called some family and friends on my even then antiquated pay-as-you-go Virgin Mobile Nokia phone.\u00a0 I huffed and puffed, and I excitedly but exhaustedly told them one-by-one that I&#8217;d finished. And I swore to each of them, and vowed to one and all, and promised definitively that SLC was the first and last race I&#8217;d ever do.<\/p>\n<p>I guess promises were made to be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why we go through boxes before throwing them out, even if they&#8217;ve been sitting in a closet for years gathering dust. I came across an envelope that said, &#8220;Marathon Stuff&#8221; and inside I found a few pieces from when Steve and I ran the LA Marathon&#8230; and this blast from the past: My [&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-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}