{"id":732,"date":"2018-11-10T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2018-11-10T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:08:20","slug":"minion-mania-race-to-d-c-5k-11-10-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/minion-mania-race-to-d-c-5k-11-10-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Minion Mania (Run to D.C. 5K) &#8211; 11\/10\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/minion-mania-race-to-d-c-5k-11-10-18\/dc_minions\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DC_Minions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DC_Minions.jpg 960w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DC_Minions-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DC_Minions-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Minion police have finally caught up with me.  WHo&#8217;s got an alibi for me? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This was my 2nd offseason 5K, and it went better than the first.  Mainly because there wasn&#8217;t Mt. Roosevelt to contend with&#8230;  But in return for only minor \/ more reasonable hills, the cold piper had to be paid.  <\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Jen, we went outside a few minutes early to acclimate.  Having stood on concrete in cold weather for hours in the past, I wasn&#8217;t too concerned.  Then the wind really kicked up, and my attitude was &#8216;screw it until it&#8217;s about to start&#8217;.  So once everyone else exited to start, so did we.<\/p>\n<p>For about the first 1\/10th of a mile, we had other people around us.  And then it was like our own race for 3 miles.  Sure, there were lots of other runners out there, but we didn&#8217;t see a single one until we went back inside post-race.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, it was at about the 2 mi mark when things started to fall apart a little.  Today, it was close to 2.65mi.  And unlike last week, it only took about 30-45 seconds to regroup and get back to running.  Overall, it was one of the more complete 5Ks that I&#8217;ve run this year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got one final 5K to wrap up my 2018 season.  And then it&#8217;s on to 2019.  Did I mention that there&#8217;s no real &#8216;offseason&#8217;? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minion police have finally caught up with me. WHo&#8217;s got an alibi for me? \ud83d\ude09 This was my 2nd offseason 5K, and it went better than the first. Mainly because there wasn&#8217;t Mt. Roosevelt to contend with&#8230; But in return for only minor \/ more reasonable hills, the cold piper had to be paid. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/minion-mania-race-to-d-c-5k-11-10-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minion Mania (Run to D.C. 5K) &#8211; 11\/10\/18<\/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":[315,7],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-achilles-chicago","tag-james-gilliard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}