{"id":1457,"date":"2026-10-01T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2026-10-01T01:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:29:14","slug":"patch-run-with-the-lion-5k-9-13-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/patch-run-with-the-lion-5k-9-13-26\/","title":{"rendered":"PATCH Run with the Lion 5K (9\/13\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(Photo courtesy of John)

Over the years, I have talked about my struggles with the run. I’ve worked on it a lot over the last few years, and I believe it’s finally<\/em> starting to pay off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I ran this race two years ago, I was coming off of Tough Mudder Pittsburgh Infinity. So my body and legs were already “warm” for this 5K the following day. From memory, I had about fourteen hours between when I crossed the finish line in PA and when I crossed the start line in IL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, I did not have a race the day before. But the results ended up very close to the same..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to the race, John and I had a chance to stretch and warm up. After about 1\/3 of a mile, the race transitioned from pavement to crushed limestone trails. While the pace was slower on that part, I was able to pick it back up at about 1.5 miles when we merged back onto pavement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second half of the race went really well, and things felt really good with the socks I was using. I will continue testing them and hope to have a formal, public post at some point in late 2027 regarding them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the 5K race start was running a little bit behind, I don’t have an exact comparison between 2024 and 2026. In 2024, we crossed the finish line within 30 seconds of the start of the kids race. This year, they had already begun by the time we crossed — but we had also started a few minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m grateful to PATCH for the opportunity, and to John for all his help and guiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo courtesy of John) Over the years, I have talked about my struggles with the run. I’ve worked on it a lot over the last few years, and I believe it’s finally starting to pay off. When I ran this race two years ago, I was coming off of Tough Mudder Pittsburgh Infinity. So my … Continue reading PATCH Run with the Lion 5K (9\/13\/26)<\/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-1457","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\/1457","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=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}