{"id":20,"date":"2004-05-10T17:37:44","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2004-05-10T17:37:44","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T21:37:44","slug":"time-to-put-my-feet-where-my-mouth-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/05\/10\/time-to-put-my-feet-where-my-mouth-is\/","title":{"rendered":"time to put my feet where my mouth is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s a lottery, and the odds of getting in are around 1-in-2, but I&#8217;m still pretty stoked that I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingnycmarathon.org\/entrantinfo\/entrantdatabase.html\" title=\"search on needham. I'm too lazy to figure out the form to do it for you.\">been accepted<\/a> to run in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingnycmarathon.org\/\">marathon in New York<\/a>. It&#8217;s a pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingnycmarathon.org\/generalinfo\/course.html\" title=\"there are some nasty hills, but not as bad as Boston\">cool route<\/a> through all five boroughs, finishing off in Central Park. Hopefully <a href=\"http:\/\/glory.deadsquid.com\/zlw\/\">Walt and Lee<\/a> will still be there, and I can combine a mini-vacation with a really long run over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marathontraining.com\/marathon\/m_sch_2.html\" title=\"45 miles? in one week? whee, I'm dead.\">Training schedules<\/a> for preparing for a marathon are pretty daunting, and I think I&#8217;m going to be enlisting the help of the local Running Room through the marathon clinic and support via run club. I know I can do it, but with the humidty and heat here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceciliacotton.ca\/archives\/00000042.htm\" title=\"yep, it does get that hot here. Good thing there's cold beverages everywhere on Canada Day.\">Ottawa<\/a> over the summer, it&#8217;s going to be a huge challenge.<\/p>\n<p>If I can complete NYC, it&#8217;ll mean running a marathon within 13 months of starting to run.  That&#8217;d be pretty cool. I&#8217;m all set for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncm.ca\" title=\"same core sponsor as NYC, cool.\">race weekend<\/a> in three weeks time, and have run 20<abbr title=\"kilometres\">km<\/abbr> multiple times without dying. So, I&#8217;m about halfway to where I need to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s a lottery, and the odds of getting in are around 1-in-2, but I&#8217;m still pretty stoked that I&#8217;ve been accepted to run in this year&#8217;s marathon in New York. It&#8217;s a pretty cool route through all five boroughs, finishing off in Central Park. Hopefully Walt and Lee will still be there, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}