{"id":2459,"date":"2014-04-29T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2016-02-11T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T01:05:40","slug":"ring-around-the-neck-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/ring-around-the-neck-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Around the Neck Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few Striders ran the <em>Ring Around the Neck<\/em> in Marblehead on April 27.<\/p>\n<p>This race is a home game for me, so I refused to let any of the Kays beat me. Actually&#8230; Sean was ahead of me for most of the race, but it looked like a small dog (Pekingese perhaps?) tried to attack his ankle on the far side of Marblehead Neck. My Rhodesian Ridgeback is absolutely useless, but this poorly-leashed ball of white fluff slowed Sean\u00a0down enough for me to lurch ahead at the summit of the Neck and to begin the descent with renewed optimism.\u00a0Young people really have no concept of how fast older people can go downhill.<\/p>\n<p>Results are here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/results\/14\/ma\/Apr27_RingAr_set1.shtml\">http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/results\/14\/ma\/Apr27_RingAr_set1.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrated Map<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2460\" style=\"width: 802px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ringRace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ringRace.jpg\" alt=\"Ring Around the Neck - 2014\" width=\"812\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ringRace.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ringRace-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ring Around the Neck &#8211; 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>About a Mile from Finish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/evidence3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/evidence3.jpg\" alt=\"evidence3\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/evidence3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/evidence3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Striders ran the Ring Around the Neck in Marblehead on April 27. This race is a home game for me, so I refused to let any of the Kays beat me. Actually&#8230; Sean was ahead of me for most of the race, but it looked like a small dog (Pekingese perhaps?) tried to &#8230; <a title=\"Ring Around the Neck Recap\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/ring-around-the-neck-recap\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ring Around the Neck Recap\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/chelseachase.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}