{"id":1165,"date":"2023-06-22T01:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2023-06-22T01:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:22:55","slug":"trail-challenge-universal-sole-4mc-5-11-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/trail-challenge-universal-sole-4mc-5-11-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Challenge (Universal Sole 4MC) (5\/11\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02-USole-Post-Race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02-USole-Post-Race-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02-USole-Post-Race-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02-USole-Post-Race-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02-USole-Post-Race.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last 10 years since doing my first 5K, I&#8217;ve continually looked for interesting and challenging events to add in for &#8216;fun&#8217; as I work towards the main goals. The most recent addition was trail racing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few years ago, I found Universal Sole in the Chicago area. While I had intended to do a race with them prior to now, there were other commitments that conflicted. This race fell into line with the schedule, so I was excited to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had been about 5 years since I did my last trail race, and that one was a huge bear. It was in a wooded area with lots of hills. I&#8217;ll just leave it as my white singlet was grey by race end from all the sweat\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there were challenges along the lakefront, the first 3 miles were OK. There were some decent divots and a couple of minor &#8216;potholes&#8217; along the sand portions of the out and back that we had to do quick walks over\/around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then we got to the last mile\u2026 which was about 90% grass in the setting sun. Not being able to see any potential pitfalls, and twisting an ankle was a real concern. Especially with three specific (including 1 very special) athletic events in the next few weeks. I&#8217;m glad that we didn&#8217;t try to push it in the grass, as there was an off-center, really bad rut at about 3.6 &#8211; 3.8 that I know would have caused an injury if I was trying to push it. Even with having to walk almost all of the last mile for safety reasons, I did still sprint through the chute as normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks so much to Ian for guiding me and keeping me safe throughout the race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 10 years since doing my first 5K, I&#8217;ve continually looked for interesting and challenging events to add in for &#8216;fun&#8217; as I work towards the main goals. The most recent addition was trail racing. A few years ago, I found Universal Sole in the Chicago area. While I had intended to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/trail-challenge-universal-sole-4mc-5-11-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trail Challenge (Universal Sole 4MC) (5\/11\/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-1165","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\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}