{"id":8916,"date":"2017-02-11T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2017-02-11T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T21:31:15","slug":"mississippi-river-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=8916","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi River Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It feels weird to put this out there given the results photo I snapped, but today was something of a successful failure for me. It was a tough day. Tough logistically as well the bus headed to the start line seemingly didn’t know where to go. Tough emotionally and psychologically. Tough physically. Tough temporarily and humidity-ly. Tough with winds that always seemed to be headwinds. \u00a0Tough in that it felt like a failure as I wasn’t able to hit my own personal, unstated and still unstated goal for the day.<\/p>\n

The way I feel makes it seem like an inauspicious start to a new age bracket and to running in general. Some days are like that.<\/p>\n

But rather than focus and drone on about my feelings of flopping today, here are a few “highlights” to obscure my own “lowlights.”<\/p>\n

Here’s Mayor JoAnne H. Bush of Lake Village… she has her own safety vest!<\/p>\n

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Here’s a few shots from along the course… it was a lot of lonely areas. Good volunteers and aid stations every mile from mile 6, and the traffic officials (police, fire, crossing guards, etc) were all very helpful and supportive.<\/p>\n

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The big “money shot” of the course was the Greenville Bridge at mile 13. Here are a few pics from there.<\/p>\n

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It was a real struggle into the finish line. I barely made the sub 3:15 target for my newly minted BQ time requirement for my age group. It wouldn’t be enough to get into the race proper but it is a BQ.<\/p>\n

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Getting older means I’m now running as a “master.” \u00a0 I suppose that’s a nicer way of saying “old” but a wilted rose by any other name still dies.<\/p>\n

THAT’S a dark way to end a post…<\/p>\n

My time is “unofficial” they said and thus they couldn’t give me the award plaque. \u00a0I couldn’t wait around for the time to be ruled “official” as I needed to get back to Memphis to catch my flight. \u00a0As it was, I barely made it.<\/p>\n

Story of the day, I suppose…<\/p>\n

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It feels weird to put this out there given the results photo I snapped, but today was something of a successful failure for me. It was a tough day. Tough logistically as well the bus headed to the start line seemingly didn’t know where to go. Tough emotionally and psychologically. Tough physically. Tough temporarily and […]<\/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-8916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916","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=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}