{"id":1272,"date":"2024-09-17T03:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2024-09-17T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T03:38:00","slug":"run-with-the-lion-5k-9-8-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/run-with-the-lion-5k-9-8-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Run with the Lion 5K (9\/8\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I planned this 5K race, I didn’t know about the Tough Mudder Infinity that I’d have to do the day before. But I managed to get a minimum of 15.6 (but really probably 16.1) miles before heading out that morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even after two epsom salt baths the night before, my left knee was still tight. But I was able to get it almost completely stretched out before the race started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going into the race, my plan was more of a walk\/run. Especially after 8+ hours on course the prior day, I didn’t think I’d have much of anything in the tank. But I was wrong\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we started, my focus was to run until my legs became tight and then go into walk\/run mode for the rest. But that never happened. While it wasn’t break-neck speed, it WAS the first 5K that I’ve been able to complete without having to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did pass up the aide station as I was concerned about a repeat from Houston 2023. And where I was at with consisentcy, I didn’t want to have the last mile be a ragged run. We were able to finish right before the kids’ race began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to John for all his help and guiding for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I planned this 5K race, I didn’t know about the Tough Mudder Infinity that I’d have to do the day before. But I managed to get a minimum of 15.6 (but really probably 16.1) miles before heading out that morning. Even after two epsom salt baths the night before, my left knee was still … Continue reading Run with the Lion 5K (9\/8\/24)<\/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-1272","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\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}