{"id":67,"date":"2012-09-29T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professorontherun.wordpress.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-06-12T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:01:12","slug":"september-2012-first-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"September 2012, First Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The planned 5k race was 29 September 2012, so I decided to give my knees a break and only do bike rides for the month.\u00a0 7 days out, I went out for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/92045372\" target=\"_blank\">1 mile jog<\/a>.\u00a0 Knee felt fine, but I didn&#8217;t want to push it.<\/p>\n<p>The race was early on a Saturday morning.\u00a0 At the fire of a cannon I took off, adrenalin pumping and pushing me to run faster that I ever had before.\u00a0 I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/92045377\" target=\"_blank\">PR 5k time<\/a> and pace (7:45 min\/mile) and felt great.\u00a0 I was exhausted but the excitement of the &#8220;Race&#8221; atmosphere made me run fast.\u00a0 And no knee pain!\u00a0 It was great.<\/p>\n\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\/109792679\/embed\/b6d0409f7644d2bf2796d224240445713e2ed0f9\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_0585\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/img_0585-e1390595525875.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJulianne and me before the race.\u00a0 It was a bit chilly out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Boat ride 8\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?w=5184&amp;ssl=1 5184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/boat-ride-8.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Going wakeboarding later that day probably didn&#8217;t help the knee injury&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planned 5k race was 29 September 2012, so I decided to give my knees a break and only do bike rides for the month.\u00a0 7 days out, I went out for a 1 mile jog.\u00a0 Knee felt fine, but I didn&#8217;t want to push it. 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