{"id":2563,"date":"2014-10-19T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T19:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2014-10-20T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:39:24","slug":"baystate-marathon-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/baystate-marathon-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Baystate Marathon 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Record of 3:21:41! (Better is better.)<\/li>\n<li>Finished the race feeling a little less bad than last year!<\/li>\n<li>Was on pace for BQ until leg cramps and old age combined in a spectacular pincer movement to restore me to a more appropriate running pace.<\/li>\n<li>Great weather and occasional views of river and fast food!<\/li>\n<li>Lunch with my wife! Great support team!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Boston Qualifier. Missed Boston qualifying time by 6:41.<\/li>\n<li>Leg cramps came on again late in the race.\u00a0I could actually hear my hamstring say to my quadricep, &#8220;there is NO grizzly or polar bear chasing us! I repeat: there is NO PREDATOR\u00a0chasing us, so clearly we need to stop this foolishness! Cramp&#8230; CRAMP now!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Do not look at any pictures of me running this race. Every time I saw a camera person something was going wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the mile Splits. Can you tell where bad stuff happened?<\/p>\n<p>Mile<br \/>\n1 &#8211; 7:21.5<br \/>\n2 &#8211; 7:09.5<br \/>\n3 &#8211; 7:20.8<br \/>\n4 &#8211; 7:22.2<br \/>\n5 &#8211; 7:27.1<br \/>\n6 &#8211; 7:18.3<br \/>\n7 &#8211; 7:18.0<br \/>\n8 &#8211; 7:10.4<br \/>\n9 &#8211; 7:09.5<br \/>\n10 &#8211; 7:09.9<br \/>\n11 &#8211; 7:18.8<br \/>\n12 &#8211; 7:12.3<br \/>\n13 &#8211; 7:10.0<br \/>\n14 &#8211; 7:21.8<br \/>\n15 &#8211; 7:21.7<br \/>\n16 &#8211; 7:33.0<br \/>\n17 &#8211; 7:43.3<br \/>\n18 &#8211; 7:38.4<br \/>\n19 &#8211; 7:16.8<br \/>\n20 &#8211; 7:36.1<br \/>\n21 &#8211; 10:33.5 (Thank you, kind spectator, for throwing me a gu!)<br \/>\n22 &#8211; 8:17.6<br \/>\n23 &#8211; 8:05.0<br \/>\n24 &#8211; 8:27.1<br \/>\n25 &#8211; 8:30.0<br \/>\n26 &#8211; 8:04.3<br \/>\n27 &#8211; 3:37.9 (forgot to stop watch at end of race).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Good: Personal Record of 3:21:41! (Better is better.) Finished the race feeling a little less bad than last year! Was on pace for BQ until leg cramps and old age combined in a spectacular pincer movement to restore me to a more appropriate running pace. Great weather and occasional views of river and fast &#8230; <a title=\"Baystate Marathon 2014\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/baystate-marathon-2014\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Baystate Marathon 2014\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,140,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leg-cramps","category-marathons","category-running"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sloth11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}