{"id":28,"date":"2015-04-30T06:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:31:07","slug":"a-sly-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/a-sly-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sly Fox&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/01-Pre-Race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/01-Pre-Race-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"01 - Pre-Race\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/01-Pre-Race-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/01-Pre-Race.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Sly Fox was even longer than the Shamrock Shuffle, the ass kicking (aka training sessions) became even fiercer.  Nothing like a 6 mile run after working a full day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For this race, I was running with a friend and fellow Team RWB member (Stephen Snyder) as my guide.&nbsp; Since it had been more than a month since we&#8217;d run together, we did a training session in St. Charles after packet pickup.&nbsp; It ended up being about 2.9 miles, after which I went for dinner with my parents and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Race day started at 2A for me, and we were in St. Charles by 6:30 for the Team RWB meet up.&nbsp; While it was raining on and off during the race, it wasn&#8217;t too bad.&nbsp; The bad was the 30 degree hill that was the turnaround and my feet cramping up at about 5 miles.&nbsp; I ended up walking most of the last 1.2 miles, since I couldn&#8217;t run for more than about a minute without them cramping.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a great experience and a lot of fun.&nbsp; I also want to publicly thank Scott Iott for all of his help.&nbsp; I am trying to add the Batavia Half to my calendar because of his assistance and knowing it&#8217;ll be another great experience.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll see if that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Sly Fox was even longer than the Shamrock Shuffle, the ass kicking (aka training sessions) became even fiercer. Nothing like a 6 mile run after working a full day&#8230; For this race, I was running with a friend and fellow Team RWB member (Stephen Snyder) as my guide.&nbsp; Since it had been more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/a-sly-fox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Sly Fox&#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],"tags":[7,16,17,15],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-james-gilliard","tag-peapod","tag-scott-iott","tag-sly-fox"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}