{"id":1264,"date":"2015-09-26T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:52:23","slug":"first-road-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"First Road Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have run 1\/2 marathon distances a number of times, but never on pavement. It has always been on trails and going mountain pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I attempted this a week ago, but got rained out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/392388053\/embed\/c02454864c2805b33080b9704562206bff95960b\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So, I tried again. This time I started at Big Springs Park and ran down to Orem. It was great for the first 9 miles &#8211; nice easy pace. I&#8217;m not fast. But then the last 4 were hot and exposed. Why did I do this in the middle of the day?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe height=\"405\" width=\"590\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/400852916\/embed\/ebcbdd4f068196055e0f58cadea45e38d6791701\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_1265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1265\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1265 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11-1024x768.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you absolutely HAVE TO run pavement, make it pretty pavement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1266 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2-819x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tree Tunnel! Hooray for Shade!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1267\" style=\"width: 714px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/31.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1267 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/31-768x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/31.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/31.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/31.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 more miles, caked in dried salt, bonky-bonk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have run 1\/2 marathon distances a number of times, but never on pavement. It has always been on trails and going mountain pace. I attempted this a week ago, but got rained out. So, I tried again. This time I started at Big Springs Park and ran down to Orem. It was great for the first 9 miles &#8211; nice easy pace. I&#8217;m not fast. But then the last 4 were hot and exposed. Why did I do this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=1264\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"First Road Half Marathon","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[131],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race-reports-and-big-adventure-runs","tag-provo-canyon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qjMD-ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}