{"id":3878,"date":"2011-10-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2011-10-14T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:52:29","slug":"race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Race Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 80px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3878\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It is here.\u00a0 Race Day.\u00a0 The day I have been waiting for all summer.\u00a0 I ran this race 2 years ago for the first time.\u00a0 It was my <a href=\"http:\/\/glutenfreeislife.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/19\/half-marathon-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\">first ever half marathon<\/a>.\u00a0 They say you aren\u2019t supposed to set time goals for your first race.\u00a0 Your goal should simply be to finish.\u00a0 Being the competitive person I am, I couldn\u2019t help but set a goal of running the race in less than 2 hours.\u00a0 While I didn\u2019t hit my goal, I only missed it by less than 2 minutes.\u00a0 I was pleased, as I got sick less than 48 hours before the race started.\u00a0 Here is the picture\u2026.I don\u2019t know if you can see the 2nd pic from the left, but I look miserable!\u00a0 LOL!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13364_1272337850680_1296915378_805096_7554736_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"13364_1272337850680_1296915378_805096_7554736_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/13364_1272337850680_1296915378_805096_7554736_n_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"13364_1272337850680_1296915378_805096_7554736_n\" width=\"396\" height=\"298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was unable to run this race last year, as I was recovering from a stress fracture that I suffered running the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=2711\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Marathon in May 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my fifth half marathon and my fourth attempt at coming in under 2 hours.\u00a0 I ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=2555\" target=\"_blank\">ING Half Marathon in March of 2010<\/a> as a training run &amp; helped pace a friend to finish under 2:30.\u00a0 The weather looks decent \u2013 47 and cloudy or so at the start.\u00a0 There is a 30% chance of light rain and while that won\u2019t bother me, I hope it stays clear for all of those spectating &amp; supporting their friends &amp; family.<\/p>\n<p>The training is there.\u00a0 I know I can do it.\u00a0 I need to push all of the mental blocks away &amp; just run.\u00a0 If you are interested in following my progress, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gfreeislife\">follow me on Twitter<\/a>, where <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetmytime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TweetMyTime<\/a> will be updating as I run.\u00a0 Wish me luck!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry not. Do or do not, there is no try.\u201d \u2013 Yoda<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:5816726b-d708-4028-aad9-a3c210d844da\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div><object width=\"448\" height=\"252\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x51EIXjhiEU?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 448px; clear: both; font-size: .8em;\">Yoda\u2019s quote<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So, there you have it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dd8484; font-family: Segoe Script; font-size: x-large;\">Kim<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3878\"><\/div>\n<script><!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_div_class=\"linkwithin_hook\";\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 135270;\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is here.\u00a0 Race Day.\u00a0 The day I have been waiting for all summer.\u00a0 I ran this race 2 years ago for the first time.\u00a0 It was my first ever half marathon.\u00a0 They say you aren\u2019t supposed to set time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<script><!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_div_class=\"linkwithin_hook\";\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 135270;\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1R9ov-10y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}