{"id":4075,"date":"2016-05-30T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2016-06-10T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T10:12:15","slug":"169_towns_25_bridgeport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/05\/30\/169_towns_25_bridgeport.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #25: Bridgeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/8\/7366\/26969014663_d4bb45effb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#25 Bridgeport 5\/29\/16\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only going to get more difficult to knock off races as I check off nearby towns, but for the time being, it&#8217;s nice to be able to find a race within a half hour of home. For #25, I thought I might try a 10K instead of the normal 5K, so I headed to Bridgeport to run through the university, along the water, and into the ballpark. It was a sizable race, with good crowds running both the 5K and 10K options. I felt pretty consistent, and managed a decent time, though I did get a little worn down by the end, when, through the design of the course, it felt like we were running over the same territory for a third time. The finish into the ballpark was fun, though perhaps not as spectacular as you&#8217;d hope, thanks to the giant PSEG coal-fired power plant in the background, which is apparently <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/community\/bridgeport\/hc-last-ct-coal-plant-20160211-story.html\">scheduled to be closed in a few years<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>The Great Aquarion Barnum Festival 10K Road Race<\/B> | 10K | 5\/29\/16 | 48:40 | 25\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only going to get more difficult to knock off races as I check off nearby towns, but for the time being, it&#8217;s nice to be able to find a race within a half hour of home. For #25, I thought I might try a 10K instead of the normal 5K, so I headed 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-4075","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\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}