{"id":2070,"date":"2010-03-17T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2010-03-17T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:40:48","slug":"tapered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/17\/tapered.html","title":{"rendered":"Tapered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning called for a four-mile run, not really noteworthy, except for the fact that I hadn&#8217;t run <I>only<\/I> four miles since sometime in September of 2009, when I officially started training for the marathon.  It&#8217;s tapering week, which feels good, though I still manage to feel winded when I&#8217;m done.  The big day is Sunday (less than four days from now) and they&#8217;ve got a sold-out field of 25,000 signed up.  The weather has gotten significantly hotter this week; I hope it cools down a bit by Sunday, but who knows.  I feel ready, and I&#8217;m excited to see the whole course for the first time.  It&#8217;s been a long time since <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/12\/a_perfect_day_with_46_seconds_to_spare.html\">my first marathon<\/A> five and a half years ago, and I&#8217;m curious to see how I&#8217;ll do.  Packet pickup is on Friday at Dodger Stadium, and then Aimee will drop me off there early Sunday morning before the race starts at 7:25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning called for a four-mile run, not really noteworthy, except for the fact that I hadn&#8217;t run only four miles since sometime in September of 2009, when I officially started training for the marathon. It&#8217;s tapering week, which feels good, though I still manage to feel winded when I&#8217;m done. The big day is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los_angeles","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","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=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}