{"id":177,"date":"2015-07-26T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2015-07-26T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T12:52:22","slug":"best-laid-plans-7-25-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/26\/best-laid-plans-7-25-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans &#8211; 7.25.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-With-Rutgers-Mascot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-With-Rutgers-Mascot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"James-With-Rutgers-Mascot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-With-Rutgers-Mascot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/James-With-Rutgers-Mascot.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year when I ran the BTN race (5K distance) with my guides, I was disappointed about the out-and-back under the McCormick tunnel.  It was about 3\/4 &#8211; 1 mile of having to walk because I couldn&#8217;t see much of anything.  However, it seemed that the 10K only went through it once and snaked around the lakefront trail back to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>So this year, I signed up for the 10K version with my guides.  Unfortunately, it was the same way with the out-and-back under McCormick.  Somehow it seemed that the back portion was longer than the out and even darker.  I had to walk the 3\/4 &#8211; 1mi total again this year in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>While that was a frustration, it was a great day otherwise.  I ended up tracking down the Rutgers mascot for a photo post-race, and we had fun at the Fan Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mike Gorason and Beth Golden for running with me this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year when I ran the BTN race (5K distance) with my guides, I was disappointed about the out-and-back under the McCormick tunnel. It was about 3\/4 &#8211; 1 mile of having to walk because I couldn&#8217;t see much of anything. However, it seemed that the 10K only went through it once and snaked around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/26\/best-laid-plans-7-25-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Laid Plans &#8211; 7.25.15<\/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],"tags":[81,84,79,80,7,85,82,83],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-10k","tag-beth-golden","tag-btn","tag-btn-big10k","tag-james-gilliard","tag-mike-goranson","tag-rutgers","tag-rutgers-mascot"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}