{"id":3891,"date":"2015-07-20T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T23:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:08:39","slug":"169_towns_6_plainville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/20\/169_towns_6_plainville.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #6, Plainville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"#5:<\/p>\n

Another weekend, another race, right? These towns aren’t going to run themselves… A quick scan of the spreadsheet of Connecticut races on the group’s website<\/A> yielded a hit in Plainville, about a 40 minute drive up Rt. 8. I’d never been there, or really heard of the place, but when I arrived, it was clear how big the race was for the town. There were more than a thousand runners, and the race supported a cause dear to Plainville residents<\/A>, benefiting a foundation set up to honor the lives of William Petit’s daughters and wife, who died in a home invasion in 2007. <\/p>\n

It was a hot day, a blistering 85\u00b0 at 9 am when the race started. It was a flat course, and the people who lived along the route were kind enough to set up sprinklers spraying the runners as we went by, but I still felt pretty sluggish. I’m still working out a pre-race (heck, even a mid-race) plan, whether it’s better to run the day before, take a day off before, two days off before, and so on. I ended up doing fine, matching my time in Milford from two weeks before. I grabbed a few donut holes for the girls, and headed home.<\/p>\n

GE 5K Road Race<\/B> | 5K | 7\/19\/15 | 21:58 | 6\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another weekend, another race, right? These towns aren’t going to run themselves… A quick scan of the spreadsheet of Connecticut races on the group’s website yielded a hit in Plainville, about a 40 minute drive up Rt. 8. I’d never been there, or really heard of the place, but when I arrived, it was clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_haven","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}