{"id":7129,"date":"2019-06-16T20:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:33:25","slug":"turtle-days-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Days 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I ran the Turtle Days 5K this weekend.  When I was getting ready I went upstairs to sift through my collection of race t-shirts for something to wear for the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuffling through memories of long-forgotten races I found my t-shirt from Turtle Days, 2000.  What could be more perfect to wear in 2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 years, where&#8217;d they go?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve written down every race I&#8217;ve ever run, my time, and often the weather conditions, how much I weighed, and how I felt.  Looking back to that year 2000 race  I&#8217;ve given up about 5 minutes over 5K in 19 years at Turtle Days.  16 seconds a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I toed the line, feeling good in 2019, hoping to better my time last year by a significant margin.  And for a couple miles, it was going that way.  I was ahead of last year&#8217;s pace. My niece Hillary was running too, at 2 miles I was on her heels and I was feeling damn proud at keeping up with a 27 year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as mile 3 dragged on I faded and ended up running almost exactly the same pace as I did last year.  I was disappointed, but as I look at the 19 year trend, I bucked the trend this year by 16 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I won my age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll take that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran the Turtle Days 5K this weekend. When I [&hellip;]<\/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-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}