{"id":158,"date":"2004-11-28T23:43:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2004-11-28T23:43:31","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T23:43:31","slug":"i-ran-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"I ran London"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 23.10 and I’m over the moon as I’m back home after the Nike Go Nocturnal Run London<\/a> which was my first ever 10k race. <\/p>\n

According to my watch (official times will not be posted for a couple of days), I completed the course in 53.43mins.  I am stunned as I thought that my target of 60 minutes was optimistic.  Having said that, I have trained hard and put in (most of) the preparation and cut out (most of) the beer.  My race plan (to run steady 6 m\/ks) went out the window early on when I was a minute up a 1km, 2 minutes up at 2km and 4 mins up by 4km.  Though I was worried for the rest of the race that I’d done too much too early, I decided to go with my gut feeling.  I pushed hard on over Tower Bridge and back and was 6 minutes up on my schedule turning for home.  Still feeling OK by the time I ran through the 8km water station, I upped the pace again and was breathing hard through 9km.  I only really faltered when I mistook the footbridge over the last section in the park for the finish and gave a last kick too early as a result, making the last 400m the longest I have ever run.  However, nothing could stop the smiles when I dared to look at my watch.  A personal best of 53.43mins.  As you can probably tell, I well and truly chuffed.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to Doctor Stu and son Luke who braved the elements to hold my kitbag, cheer me on and take photos.<\/p>\n

First news report of the event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 23.10 and I’m over the moon as I’m back home after the Nike Go Nocturnal Run London which was my first ever 10k race.  According to my watch (official times will not be posted for a couple of days), I completed the course in 53.43mins.  I am stunned as I thought that my target of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}