{"id":73,"date":"2008-10-05T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"43@http:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/cblog\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:51:05","slug":"twin-cities-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/twin-cities-marathon\/73\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Cities Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running with 10,999 other people was an interesting contrast to my long runs leading up to this experience. From &#8220;Watch out for that puddle&#8221; to the jokes about this being more like a triathlon, I&#8217;ve never felt closer to so many people!  Sure it was fun to pass people, but when I saw the steam coming up off every body in front of me to form a cloud over us, this experience will forever be a part of me.  The overwhelming tears after crossing the finish line were followed be the realization that I just achieved a new PR.  I wanted to do it, I could do it, I had to do it, I was going to do it no matter what&#8230; Now I am content to spend more time focusing on my family life and whatever lay ahead. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/cblog\/media\/blogs\/shesaid\/RacePictures\/32674-394-025f.jpg\" alt=\"The Long Run\" title=\"The Long Run\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>bib number<\/td>\n<td>F3846<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>age<\/td>\n<td>39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>gender<\/td>\n<td>F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>location<\/td>\n<td>Minnetonka, MN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>overall place<\/td>\n<td>5339 out of 7966<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>division place<\/td>\n<td>331 out of 521<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>gender place<\/td>\n<td>1810 out of 3190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>time<\/td>\n<td>4:41:05<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>pace<\/td>\n<td>10:23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>chip time<\/td>\n<td>4:31:54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5k<\/td>\n<td>31:20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10k<\/td>\n<td>1:02:11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>half<\/td>\n<td>2:10:55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>30k<\/td>\n<td>3:14:35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20 mile<\/td>\n<td>3:28:34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<p>\n<\/tr>\n<p>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>number of finishers<\/td>\n<td>7966<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>number of females<\/td>\n<td>3180<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>number of males<\/td>\n<td>4786<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>average time<\/td>\n<td>4:22:21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"item_footer\">\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/cblog\/blog5.php\/2008\/10\/05\/twin-cities-marathon-2\">Original post<\/a> blogged on <a href=\"http:\/\/b2evolution.net\/\">b2evolution<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running with 10,999 other people was an interesting contrast to my long runs leading up to this experience. From &#8220;Watch out for that puddle&#8221; to the jokes about this being more like a triathlon, I&#8217;ve never felt closer to so many people! Sure it was fun to pass people, but when I saw the steam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strider","tag-marathon","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortensonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}