{"id":7625,"date":"2017-01-11T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2017-01-11T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:56:42","slug":"seriously-never-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=7625","title":{"rendered":"SERIOUSLY… Never tell me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given this latest Muscat Marathon posting, it’s safe to say my odds of successfully “winning” the Muscat Marathon just went to zero.<\/p>\n

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My personal record, set at peak conditions on a downhill course, was a 3:05:27. Unless there’s a massive NoroVirus outbreak, or a doping scandal worthy of Russian “intelligence” agencies, or a bunch of people stub their toe, or decide “eh, I don’t feel like running today…” the odds are NOT in my favor.<\/p>\n

And I’m okay with that. Sometimes I feel like I’m pretty fast but it’s nice to be reminded that there’s ALWAYS somebody WAY faster than me. Not that I generally need that reminder. Much like Baymax, I know I am not fast. But like many a runner, I have delusions of speed now and again. In my dreams, I’m Speed Racer, right?<\/p>\n

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Given this latest Muscat Marathon posting, it’s safe to say my odds of successfully “winning” the Muscat Marathon just went to zero. My personal record, set at peak conditions on a downhill course, was a 3:05:27. Unless there’s a massive NoroVirus outbreak, or a doping scandal worthy of Russian “intelligence” agencies, or a bunch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","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=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}