{"id":1193,"date":"2024-03-27T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:51:47","slug":"light-the-torch-5k-9-30-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/light-the-torch-5k-9-30-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Light the Torch 5K (9\/30\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2023-Light-the-TOrch-Post-Race-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo courtesy of Ian)<br><br>I have done a lot of night runs over the last several years. They have run the gamut from the really great GloRUns to the really bad &#8220;glow runs&#8221; (which IMO should really have been advertised as a &#8220;night run&#8221;). While not being a Glow Run, Light the Torch was just as good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was because the RO\/RD did an amazing job of finding a path that was naturally well-lit and then adding additional lights where needed. Also, the route was almost completely smooth, with very few cracks. That&#8217;s extremely important when you can&#8217;t see all the little details in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race itself went well for us. As I couldn&#8217;t see much, I was completely relying on Ian to be my eyes. While there were a couple of decent hills, it was still a solid night run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There had been a festival going on throughout the day. When the race ended, the beer was within it, so we saw a little of it. This was a really, really, really fun, well organized race. Can&#8217;t wait to run it again in 2024! Thanks to Ian for all his help and guiding me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo courtesy of Ian) I have done a lot of night runs over the last several years. They have run the gamut from the really great GloRUns to the really bad &#8220;glow runs&#8221; (which IMO should really have been advertised as a &#8220;night run&#8221;). While not being a Glow Run, Light the Torch was just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/light-the-torch-5k-9-30-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Light the Torch 5K (9\/30\/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-1193","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\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}