{"id":1102,"date":"2023-04-11T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2023-04-11T11:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:26:05","slug":"fraidycat-5k-10-30-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/fraidycat-5k-10-30-22\/","title":{"rendered":"FraidyCat 5K &#8211; 10\/30\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fc-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FraidyCat races have been one of my consistent fall running races.&nbsp; While I did the 10K at one point, I&#8217;ve primarily focused on the 5Ks.<br><br>The 2022 race was my first chance to use the new Hoka shoes in a 5K.&nbsp; It was also an opportunity to put into practice everything that I had learned at the Welcome 2 Running camp.<br><br>One of my biggest challenges in all 3 disciplines of Triathlon is going out too fast.&nbsp; In swimming and cycling, I can usually compensate and &#8216;smooth the curve&#8217;.&nbsp; But in running, if I end up going out too fast, it can bonk the race later on.<br><br>Knowing this, I had asked John to watch the pace.&nbsp; Unconciously, multiple times during the first mile I was in the 9:30-10:00 \/ mi range.&nbsp; That&#8217;s at least 3 min faster than the target had been.&nbsp; And that was with him telling me I was going too fast, allowing myself to correct the pace, and then unconciously going back to a too-fast pace.<br><br>Needless to say, things started falling apart after the first mile.&nbsp; The second mile was a respectable mix of run and run\/walk.&nbsp; However, the last 1.1 was a choppy walk\/run at best.<br><br>While it wasn&#8217;t the race I wanted, I did at least confirm that the Hokas worked and that they will be the right shoe going forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FraidyCat races have been one of my consistent fall running races.&nbsp; While I did the 10K at one point, I&#8217;ve primarily focused on the 5Ks. The 2022 race was my first chance to use the new Hoka shoes in a 5K.&nbsp; It was also an opportunity to put into practice everything that I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/fraidycat-5k-10-30-22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FraidyCat 5K &#8211; 10\/30\/22<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}