{"id":223,"date":"2015-05-19T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:52:42","slug":"a-pleasant-surprise-more-of-a-shock-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"A pleasant surprise! (More of a shock, really.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to say that losing 20lb. is a great way to get faster. I PR&#8217;d the Capitola Half by a LOT and finished in 2:14:48!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/ridewithgps.com\/trips\/4686622\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like I said earlier, I had my doubts about this race\u00a0because\u00a0it&#8217;s got some short hills. I haven&#8217;t trained much and what training I did was on a flat track or the moderately flat Los Gatos Creek Trail. But my previous PR of 2:32:04 was two years ago at the San Jose Rock and Roll Half \u2014 a fast, perfectly flat course. I weighed around 205lb. back then. Today, I weigh around 185. I think two years of additional training, three full marathons, and losing 10% of my body weight made all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Capitola race is a little short of 13.1 miles. Everyone&#8217;s GPSs came in between 12.9 and 13.0. I knew this when I crossed the finish line, so after I thought about it for a few steps, I started my Garmin again to walk the last 0.1 miles. Have to get that Strava badge!<\/p>\n<p>So, after walking halfway out to the end of the pier until the Garmin said &#8220;13.11,&#8221; my time was 2:19:10. Doesn&#8217;t matter: my race results say &#8220;2:14:48&#8221; and that&#8217;s all I care about \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to say that losing 20lb. is a great way to get faster. I PR&#8217;d the Capitola Half by a LOT and finished in 2:14:48! Like I said earlier, I had my doubts about this race\u00a0because\u00a0it&#8217;s got some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/?p=223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatblog.wardogcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}