{"id":236,"date":"2011-05-18T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:28:17","slug":"236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2011\/05\/18\/236\/","title":{"rendered":"Misty tapering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Met a guy in a Comrades jacket. First time I&#8217;ve heard someone say &#8220;Last year I came 8000 something. This year I want to improve my position.&#8221; Other than those the very top athletes I didn&#8217;t think people cared much about position. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4339-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Misty eyed about running\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4339-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4339.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Other numbers worry me: ~17.5 times my little 5k route seems hard. 10 times my 9k seems easy. 1 x 90k nearly impossible. The numbers of running eh? I&#8217;ll stay with this morning bright moon, the rising fog, espressos and the thought of just one more medal. Oh, and I am practicing what it will be like on race day. Ran with my timing chip this morning &#8211; to get used to its weight. Got all misty-eyed about what might happen on the big day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met a guy in a Comrades jacket. First time I&#8217;ve heard someone say &#8220;Last year I came 8000 something. This year I want to improve my position.&#8221; Other than those the very top athletes I didn&#8217;t think people cared much about position. \u00a0Other numbers worry me: ~17.5 times my little 5k route seems hard. 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,15,52],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-comrades-2011","tag-comrades","tag-marathon","tag-taper","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}