{"id":3896,"date":"2013-09-28T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2013-09-28T19:35:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T00:35:22","slug":"long-run-before-a-longer-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3896","title":{"rendered":"Long run before a longer run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 23.1 miles]<\/p>\n<p>In marathon training you work up your longest run, once a week, over about 18 weeks until you do a &#8220;long run&#8221; in the 20-23 mile range.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s a period called &#8220;the taper&#8221; lasting a week or two before the race.<\/p>\n<p>Today we did our last and longest &#8220;long run&#8221; for the marathon three weeks away.\u00a0 We ran an out and back course of 11.5 miles each way.\u00a0 We started around 4:30 am, maybe a bit earlier.\u00a0 We were at the first water stop when Mike came around putting out the water stops.\u00a0 And we finished about 10:15 or so.\u00a0 We are not fast runners.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice day for running.\u00a0 It could have been a bit cooler to suit me, but this was better than what we had been seeing all summer.<\/p>\n<p>I took this picture on Robinson Road south of the Browning Creek development.\u00a0 By this time we were running without our flashlights on.\u00a0 We did turn them on if a car approached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=3899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3899\" alt=\"Browning Creek from Robinson Road\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130928_063043_460-700x393.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130928_063043_460-700x393.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_20130928_063043_460-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 23.1 miles] In marathon training you work up your longest run, once a week, over about 18 weeks until you do a &#8220;long run&#8221; in the 20-23 mile range.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s a period called &#8220;the taper&#8221; lasting a week or two before the race. Today we did our last and longest &#8220;long run&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}