{"id":951,"date":"2020-11-01T20:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2020-11-01T20:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T20:09:14","slug":"race-for-abilities-naperville-healthy-driven-half-5k-10-18-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/race-for-abilities-naperville-healthy-driven-half-5k-10-18-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Race For Abilities (Naperville Healthy Driven Half\/5K) – 10\/18\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While I am not a fan of virtual races, I will always do them to help support those that have supported me. Having received extensive JAWS (screen readins software) training from Donka, I was happy to run with them when asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I am Visually Impaired, I need at least 1 guide when I race. I am ALWAYS looking for new ‘eyes’, so a guide-In-training also ran with me on Sunday. For the race, Kathy was my main guide and Dave was the guide-in-training. Kathy and I have run multiple times over the last couple months, which gave her a good idea of how to pace me for the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday’s virtual 5K was my first Naperville Half\/5K race. I had attempted to run the Half in 2016, but was unable to do so. I believe that unreasonable hurdles were put in place by the Race Director, so I ended up finding another race to run that fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met as a group in Veterans Park in Naperville to run. We had 8 people of Team Donka show up to race together, in a socially distanced manner. Myself, Kathy, Dave and Jodi all ran while the rest of the group walked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last 5 years, I had run this section of the trail many times, so I was familiar with the course. We did have one minor ‘obstacle’ along the way in the form of a stop light. This added about a minute round trip as we waited for traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, my issues have been with pacing. In that I will end up running an extremently fast first mile and then be spent, positive splitting 2, 3 and 3.1. Over the last month, I have been focused on starting off slower and then negative splitting. While I don’t have the exact split times, I believe that I did accomplish that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The route itself was mostly flat during the first section (start to first stop light) and then a lot of hills (first stoplight to second stpolight \/ turnaround point). Knowing that, I focused on keeping a steady pace out, knowing that a small part of the back would be a run\/walk due to the hills. This is essentially how it all played out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a really fun day, and we were fortunate to finish before it started raining. After the 5K, we added on another .4mi to satisfy a 3.5mi race I needed to do. I look forward to running with Team Donka again in 2021!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’d like to donate to Team Donka, you can do so here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I am not a fan of virtual races, I will always do them to help support those that have supported me. Having received extensive JAWS (screen readins software) training from Donka, I was happy to run with them when asked. As I am Visually Impaired, I need at least 1 guide when I race. … Continue reading Race For Abilities (Naperville Healthy Driven Half\/5K) – 10\/18\/20<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","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\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}