{"id":66,"date":"2016-01-03T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-01-03T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T20:58:41","slug":"im-going-to-jackson-ville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"I’m going to Jackson…ville."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever I’m asked about running in the rain, I try and tell people that once you’re 100% soaked you can’t get any more wet so you might as well keep running.\u00a0 That mantra didn’t help this morning as my alarm went off at 2:30 AM for a 2.5 hour drive up to Jacksonville, FL.<\/p>\n

I had run this race a few years back and it always surprises me when I repeat race the things I remember about the re-run course.\u00a0 Today I distinctly remembered the out and back 3 mile loop that that started the course and the Hooters we ran past at miles 5.5 and again on the way back at mile 23.5.<\/p>\n

It was a rainy, surprisingly cold return engagement this morning and I wasn’t in the mood to run.\u00a0 I did however have my Mom along to cheer me on.\u00a0 The rain finally stopped around the halfway point but I was pretty soaked.\u00a0 Yes, yes 100% through and through so how could I be any more soaked?\u00a0 I just seemed to be soaked and chilled to my core.\u00a0 I did appreciate the soup and hot chocolate at the finish line inside the Bolles School’s stadium.<\/p>\n

As it happened, I wound up with a sub 3:30 for the first race of 2016 and got to spend some time with my Mom.\u00a0 So whinging and whining aside, not a bad way to begin the new year.<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of Mom and me at mile 3 and at the end of the race.<\/p>\n

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Whenever I’m asked about running in the rain, I try and tell people that once you’re 100% soaked you can’t get any more wet so you might as well keep running.\u00a0 That mantra didn’t help this morning as my alarm went off at 2:30 AM for a 2.5 hour drive up to Jacksonville, FL. I […]<\/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":[5,3,4,7,6],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-5","tag-jacksonville","tag-marathon","tag-mom","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}