I was glad Aimee could come up here with me for the wedding we attended last night, firstly because it gave her a chance to meet Neil and Melanie, and also because it was one more opportunity to see the uniquely Alaskan way people do things here. The ceremony was great – equal parts religion and philosophy (at no other wedding do I think I’d hear the words “As S?ren Kierkegaard once said…” in the marriage vows) and definitely personalized – and the reception afterwards was fun as well. <\/p>\n
The goal for today was to get the 12 mile run done that I’m supposed to do tomorrow, because I decided I’m allowed to fudge things a little on vacation. I decided to revisit the scene of the first running race I ran (not counting the 60 Minute Challenge races we ran as kids), the Humpy’s 10k<\/A> in 2001, and run on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail<\/A>. In order to maximize the number of times I could see Aimee, who was my water\/gu<\/A>\/gatorade helper, i started out going into town along Chester Creek, and then headed back through the Coastal Trail start and out towards Point Woronzof. I stopped there, at the eight-mile point in my run, in the shadow of extremely low-flying and almost motionless-seeming cargo jets taking off from the airport out over Cook Inlet. I felt great, especially with the help of my first use of a shot of carbohydrate goo during the run, which I guess I should have been doing all along. I managed to set a good pace and keep it thoughout, and finished the twelve miles at about an 8:10 pace, which I was very happy with. Tonight we’re off to Neil’s brother’s house for a barbeque, and then we’re going to pay another visit to NYC in Anchorage, the ailing Sub-Zero<\/A> bar, home of great Belgian beers, expensive martinis, and a tiny clientele. We’re doing our best to keep it going, and we’ll see how it’s doing tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was glad Aimee could come up here with me for the wedding we attended last night, firstly because it gave her a chance to meet Neil and Melanie, and also because it was one more opportunity to see the uniquely Alaskan way people do things here. The ceremony was great – equal parts religion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-running","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}