{"id":3299,"date":"2015-08-14T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2015-08-14T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:24:43","slug":"berlin-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of &#8220;those people&#8221; who, when it comes to big goals, ie: marathon finish times, I keep my cards pretty close to my chest. Why? Well, for starters, I am embarrassed about my lack of speed and second, if I miss my goal, y&#8217;all would never know! HA! However:<\/p>\n<p>I have a pretty aggressive goal for Berlin. My big goal for 2015 was to get\/break a 5 hr marathon (see, told you I&#8217;m not the speediest person out there). I had my first marathon of 2015 on Valentine&#8217;s Day. I missed 5 hrs by 5 minutes. I will say (as will almost every single runner that day) that the course was almost an entire mile long. Be that as it may, I ran that race exactly how I was supposed to and am content with how I did that day.<\/p>\n<p>So, why am I blabbering on right now? Well, today I was supposed to run my 10 miles at marathon pace. That 10 miles was supposed to take my 1:50. It took me 1:56. At first, I was upset with myself! Then I realized that my pace this morning was the exact same pace I ran that race earlier this year. That&#8217;s not all that bad!<\/p>\n<p>All that to say, I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and share my, &#8220;In my wildest dreams&#8221; goal for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berlinmarathon\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=234620607860&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D\">BERLIN-MARATHON<\/a>. I would LOVE to get 4:45 at Berlin. I&#8217;m going to have to hustle my substantial fanny to get it, but if the stars align, as they say, I might (might!) be able to pull that off. In reality? I&#8217;d be thrilled with 4:59:59!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to sharing goals and hopefully not coming away with egg on my face! \u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?attachment_id=3300\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3300\" alt=\"11229832_831753170278154_2851937416917393725_n\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11229832_831753170278154_2851937416917393725_n.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11229832_831753170278154_2851937416917393725_n.jpg 500w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11229832_831753170278154_2851937416917393725_n-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11229832_831753170278154_2851937416917393725_n-467x300.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m one of &#8220;those people&#8221; who, when it comes to big goals, ie: marathon finish times, I keep my cards pretty close to my chest. Why? Well, for starters, I am embarrassed about my lack of speed and second, if I miss my goal, y&#8217;all would never know! HA! However: I have a pretty aggressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}