{"id":1126,"date":"2023-04-11T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:00:52","slug":"we-are-houston-5k-1-14-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/we-are-houston-5k-1-14-23\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Houston 5K &#8211; 1\/14\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wah.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>(Photo courtesy of Blake)<br><br>When I ran the We Are Houston 5K with Nicole in 2020, it was a hot and humid day.\u00a0 I remember it starting to pour within 10 minutes of us finishing the race.\u00a0<br><br>In 2023, the conditions were a bit more favorable.\u00a0 The guide that I had did a great job with the pacing, and Blake helped with clearing.\u00a0<br><br>Things were going so well at ~2.25 that I almost didn&#8217;t stop for hydration.\u00a0 I almost talked myself into &#8216;it&#8217;s only 10 minutes; you can go without for that long&#8217;\u00a0 I wish I had&#8230;<br><br>I grabbed whatever electrolyte drink was on course.\u00a0 And unfortunately things went downhill from there.\u00a0 What had been a strong, solid run to that point became a choppy walk\/run as I tried to clear my throat so I could swallow.\u00a0 I managed to get things &#8216;settled&#8217; by 3 so that I could sprint in the chute as normal, but it was disappointing.<br><br>As frustrating as that was, I did learn a lesson (from the convesation with my coach).\u00a0 Going forward, I will be sticking to just water on the shorter run races.\u00a0 Looking back, anything else during a 5K has just led to similar issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo courtesy of Blake) When I ran the We Are Houston 5K with Nicole in 2020, it was a hot and humid day.\u00a0 I remember it starting to pour within 10 minutes of us finishing the race.\u00a0 In 2023, the conditions were a bit more favorable.\u00a0 The guide that I had did a great job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/we-are-houston-5k-1-14-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Are Houston 5K &#8211; 1\/14\/23<\/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-1126","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\/1126","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=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}