{"id":992,"date":"2013-01-06T00:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=992"},"modified":"2013-01-06T00:57:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T00:57:52","slug":"mississippi-blues-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Blues Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a013.1 miles<\/p>\n<p>Today was the much anticipated Mississippi Blues Half Marathon. \u00a0My husband and I have been training for this race since the middle of November. \u00a0If you follow this blog at all, you will be aware of the difficulties we have encountered in the training for this race. \u00a0We went in today feeling unprepared.<\/p>\n<p>However, the race went very well. \u00a0My husband, who has been running since we were married had a very nice PR that he set a long time ago and so he did not set a new PR today. \u00a0This is only my second Half Marathon and I did set a new PR~by 7 minutes! \u00a0Bells and Whistles!!!<\/p>\n<p>The race was very well organized and they had bands set up around the course so as you ran, you had music to help you pick up your feet and put them back down again.<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00744-20130105-0906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-994\" title=\"Blues Band\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00744-20130105-0906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00744-20130105-0906.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00744-20130105-0906-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00744-20130105-0906-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The race medals we received are excellent!<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-995\" title=\"race ribbon \" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/race-ribbon-001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And according to the race officials, I finished the Mississippi Blues Half Marathon in 2:51! \u00a0It was a wonderful feeling to be done and to have a feeling of having accomplished and completed something successfully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00743-20130105-08551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-999\" title=\"tired but happy\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00743-20130105-08551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00743-20130105-08551.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00743-20130105-08551-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG00743-20130105-08551-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a013.1 miles Today was the much anticipated Mississippi Blues Half Marathon. \u00a0My husband and I have been training for this race since the middle of November. \u00a0If you follow this blog at all, you will be aware of the difficulties we have encountered in the training for this race. \u00a0We went in today [&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\/992"}],"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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}