{"id":848,"date":"2014-12-21T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkgoldenrod-hedgehog-874350.hostingersite.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T15:40:07","slug":"tomorrows-mountain-marathon-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s Mountain Marathon Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I will attempt my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/routes\/1220951\" target=\"_blank\">first marathon-distance run<\/a>. I have chosen the western ridges of the South Mountain Park\/Preserve located on the southern edge of Phoenix, AZ. \u00a0The longest I have run before was about 20 miles. So, this will be a jump in distance for me. I know that the strava tool I used to draw the route over estimated the elevation gain (it is more in the 6,000 than 8,700 ft, range). Conversely, I suspect that the the imprecision of the strava tool\u00a0might have underestimated the distance. So &#8211; I might be attempting a 50k. We&#8217;ll see. The stress fractures in my ankles acted up the last couple weeks so I cut all training and haven&#8217;t run in about 14 days &#8211; trying to rest them. While good for my ankles, I bet that won&#8217;t be good for my conditioning. Boo. Maybe the 2,000 ft. elevation drop from home will help out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In any case, tomorrow AM &#8211; send some positive vibes to Phoenix. I&#8217;ll need them!!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-851\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-851 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2-1024x642.png?resize=640%2C401&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Untitled picture2\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?resize=1024%2C642&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?resize=676%2C424&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?w=1058&amp;ssl=1 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ridges. Each one will be about a 1,000+ ft. climb to get on top of. In total there will be 3 major climbs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/routes\/1220951\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture.png?resize=640%2C431&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Untitled picture\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture.png?w=806&amp;ssl=1 806w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture.png?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture.png?resize=676%2C455&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I will attempt my first marathon-distance run. I have chosen the western ridges of the South Mountain Park\/Preserve located on the southern edge of Phoenix, AZ. \u00a0The longest I have run before was about 20 miles. So, this will be a jump in distance for me. I know that the strava tool I used to draw the route over estimated the elevation gain (it is more in the 6,000 than 8,700 ft, range). Conversely, I suspect that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/?p=848\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"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":"","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":[1],"tags":[11,24,72,81,91],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-bursera-trail","tag-national-trail","tag-pyramid-trail","tag-south-mountain-trails"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professorontherun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Untitled-picture2.png?fit=1058%2C663&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qjMD-dG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorontherun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}