{"id":3896,"date":"2015-07-06T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2015-08-26T20:09:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T00:09:22","slug":"169_towns_4_milford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/06\/169_towns_4_milford.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #4, Milford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/575\/19945793244_a8cb78a210.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#4: Milford, Independence Day 5000, 7\/4\/15\"><\/p>\n<p>After seeing a number of &#8220;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.debticonn.org\">Run 169 Towns<\/A>&#8221; shirts at Mt. Washington, I checked up on the group and thought it would be a fun thing to do. This race on the fourth of July was the first one nearby in a town I&#8217;d never run before, so we all headed over to Milford to give it a go. Grace and Lucy ran the very informal &#8220;fun run&#8221; afterward, which they couldn&#8217;t stop talking about beforehand and have now referred to many times afterward. Lucy ran on her own, then I grabbed her hand, and when I let go again, she took a tumble, so that&#8217;s now the abiding memory, of course&#8230; Grace came in third, after two speedy older kids. <\/p>\n<p>The race was good, a mostly flat course, with nice weather, and good crowd support. I felt pretty good, ran hard, and came in just under 22:00, which felt pretty fast. I dutifully filled out my 169 Towns form online to register my race afterwards, and checked off race number 4. Only 165 left&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;font-size:13px;\"><B>Courtney Honda Milford Independence Day 5000<\/B> | 5K | 7\/4\/15 | 21:58 | 4\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a number of &#8220;Run 169 Towns&#8221; shirts at Mt. Washington, I checked up on the group and thought it would be a fun thing to do. This race on the fourth of July was the first one nearby in a town I&#8217;d never run before, so we all headed over to Milford to [&hellip;]<\/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-3896","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\/3896","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=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}