{"id":216892713,"date":"2006-10-29T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/no8wire.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/29\/two-hours-seventeen-minutes-fifty-two-seconds\/"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:38:40","slug":"two-hours-seventeen-minutes-fifty-two-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892713","title":{"rendered":"Two hours, seventeen minutes &amp; fifty-two seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/uploaded_images\/ahb-710027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/no8wire\/uploaded_images\/ahb-707605.jpg\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I ran over here today<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The 21.09kms mix of rolling hills, flat dockside and Harbour Bridge of this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz\/\">Auckland Half Marathon<\/a> took me 2:17 to complete.  To put this in context, my new personal best time for the half marathon is a full thirteen minutes slower that it took the Kenyan Paul Tergat to run twice that distance when setting the world marathon record in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Having risen for breakfast at 3 a.m. and previously only run 10k events, the extra 11kms were new territory for me and a challenge, despite twelve week&#8217;s training.   A solitary instep blister  was the only &#8216;injury&#8217; I experienced during training so I was surprised and annoyed when, at just the 8km mark, I picked up a nagging pain in my right knee.  My post-race masseur offered the opinion that this might be associated with the iliotibial band, a common problem for runners.<\/p>\n<p>After driving home gingerly, taking anti-inflammatories, soaking in a bath and icing my knee, I had a quick lunch and a long but fitful nap.  Suitably refreshed and revived, I have just enjoyed one of SWMBO&#8217;s superb roast chicken dinners and am now enjoying a chilled light beer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">picture: beautifulnewzealand.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran over here today The 21.09kms mix of rolling hills, flat dockside and Harbour Bridge of this morning&#8217;s Auckland Half Marathon took me 2:17 to complete. To put this in context, my new personal best time for the half marathon is a full thirteen minutes slower that it took the Kenyan Paul Tergat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,441],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-216892713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-places","tag-out-about"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892713","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\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216892713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893266,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892713\/revisions\/216893266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216892713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216892713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216892713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}