{"id":256,"date":"2011-05-26T04:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:28:17","slug":"pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2011\/05\/26\/pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So its off to the Durban today. Won&#8217;t be sorry to get sunshine, warmth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4377.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4377.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting to run, waited too long\" width=\"257\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4377.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/files\/2011\/05\/DSCF4377-160x300.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>Cape Town has been wet for days; not bad in one way but for the risk of a cold or flu is. Others will be doing the same, stretch in the plane, wink at the baggage carousel. Often the same conversation \u00a0&#8211; good luck, how many you done? Only x. How can you say only x when just ONE is an extraordinary achievement; an even more extraordinary experience.<\/p>\n<p>Getting to the start line, getting the medal is extraordinary. Not just because I say it; not because I have to make it special to justify all the effort. Much more because I have felt that crossing the line feeling enough to know.<\/p>\n<p>Next comes the expo, then putting up my feet for a day, putting them up and down for a day, then putting them up for a month. Or until Emily needs someone to crawl after her; or a beer is put on the table just out of arms length; or a friend suggests a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So its off to the Durban today. Won&#8217;t be sorry to get sunshine, warmth. Cape Town has been wet for days; not bad in one way but for the risk of a cold or flu is. Others will be doing the same, stretch in the plane, wink at the baggage carousel. Often the same conversation [&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],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-comrades-2011","tag-comrades","tag-marathon","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}