{"id":979,"date":"2003-11-05T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/11\/runaround-fish.html"},"modified":"2003-11-05T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T20:38:00","slug":"runaround-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/11\/runaround-fish.html","title":{"rendered":"Runaround Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingnycmarathon.org\/raceday\/index.php\">New York City Marathon<\/a>. Boston, of course, doesn&#8217;t have complete race coverage, but they do show the highlights in the afternoon. My friend Fish decided to try it out this year&#8211;it&#8217;s doubly impressive for him because not only does this mean he&#8217;s running 26.2 miles, it means he&#8217;s quit smoking, something I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever see (a fish without a cigarette is like a woman without a bicycle or something like that). I&#8217;m sure if he had known about it ahead of time, he&#8217;d be paranoid, but I was able to track his progress through the race on the Web site. Because all the runners wear chips, you can follow their splits. I dutifully watched the highlights program (no sign of Fish) and read all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingnycmarathon.org\/results\/index.html\">the race info<\/a> to help motivate me to the gym. I&#8217;m completely pumped to run the marathon this year, although I have such a long way to go until I&#8217;m ready. I need to be back to a twenty-mile-a-week running base by June, which is certainly doable, even though my huffing and puffing at a simple three-mile jog makes me feel doubtful at the moment. Anyway, Fish finished with just over twelve-minute miles. My goal for next year is to simply finish, although (to show that Adam&#8217;s business speak has had some effect on me) my stretch goal is under thirteen-minute miles. In my peak, I was running half-marathons at 11:30. So I figure 12:45 for a full marathon could happen if I can get myself back into my peak shape. Right now I&#8217;m more in my pear shape. But I&#8217;m working on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was the New York City Marathon. Boston, of course, doesn&#8217;t have complete race coverage, but they do show the highlights in the afternoon. My friend Fish decided to try it out this year&#8211;it&#8217;s doubly impressive for him because not only does this mean he&#8217;s running 26.2 miles, it means he&#8217;s quit smoking, something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}