{"id":16,"date":"2015-04-30T05:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2015-04-30T05:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T05:04:43","slug":"lets-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/lets-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Shuffle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/06-Pre-Race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/06-Pre-Race-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"06 - Pre-Race\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/06-Pre-Race-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/06-Pre-Race.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#bebebe\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"><B><br \/>\nTowards the end of 2014, I decided that I wanted to run the Shamrock Shuffle this year.&nbsp; So while it was still cold, I went to the gym and started pushing towards 5 miles on the treadmill.&nbsp; And once it got nice outside, Terri and I went running on different paths.&nbsp; By the week before the Shamrock Shuffle, we were at 71 minutes for 5 miles, which was within the time limit.<\/p>\n<p>Keri Serota, who is the coordinator for athletes with disabilities (AWD) helped us to get everything in line for the race, and the start.&nbsp; Terri and I first met her when we picked up all of our packets the Friday before the race.<\/p>\n<p>On race day, we arrived at the tent about 20 minutes before the start time, and checked in.&nbsp; We got to meet Israel (another AWD) and his guide, as well as Lisa who works with Keri.&nbsp; Keri walked the 5 of us out to the start line about 10 minutes prior, and we were stationed behind the wheelchair athletes.&nbsp; We started about 2 minutes before the rest of the field, but the elite runners quickly caught up to us in the dark tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>While it was a challenging race, it was a great experience.&nbsp; I lost count of the number of people that were encouraging us as we ran.&nbsp; I wrote a longer post about the weekend for The Imperfect Journey.&nbsp; You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/theimperfectjourney.com\/james-gilliard-athlete-on-the-move\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of 2014, I decided that I wanted to run the Shamrock Shuffle this year.&nbsp; So while it was still cold, I went to the gym and started pushing towards 5 miles on the treadmill.&nbsp; And once it got nice outside, Terri and I went running on different paths.&nbsp; By the week before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/lets-shuffle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Shuffle&#8230;<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[10,7,9,8,6],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","category-terri","tag-awd","tag-james-gilliard","tag-keri-serota","tag-shamrock-shuffle","tag-terri-hayes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}