{"id":1295,"date":"2025-05-05T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2025-05-05T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:40:15","slug":"we-are-houston-5k-1-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/we-are-houston-5k-1-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Houston 5K (1\/18\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5K-Post-Race-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo courtesy of DOug)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I mentioned in a prior blog from last September, I was finally able to run the entire 5K. &nbsp;After I had come close in Houston within the past couple years, the goal for 2025 was two-fold &#8212; to run the entire 5K and shave time off of the September 2024 pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the standard Catapult team photo, Doug and I headed out and towards the front of the start line as part of the AWD group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After starting off a little fast, Doug helped me to settle into a solid pace which I believed I could keep for the full race. &nbsp;While there were a couple of points where Doug had to help me calm the breathing down (especially as we were on the way back after being Flathoused), I made it work. &nbsp;I did also skip the water station that was close to the end so I didn&#8217;t have a repeat of what had happened last time in the last half mile or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I crossed the finish line, I had succeeded in both goals. I shaved about 3 minutes off of the 2024 time and ran the entire 5K!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Doug for guiding me at to Catapult for all their support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo courtesy of DOug) As I mentioned in a prior blog from last September, I was finally able to run the entire 5K. &nbsp;After I had come close in Houston within the past couple years, the goal for 2025 was two-fold &#8212; to run the entire 5K and shave time off of the September 2024 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/we-are-houston-5k-1-18-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Are Houston 5K (1\/18\/25)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","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\/1295","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=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}