{"id":4082,"date":"2016-07-16T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2016-09-10T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:44:48","slug":"169_towns_26_roxbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/07\/16\/169_towns_26_roxbury.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #26: Roxbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the races I&#8217;ve run have been fairly official affairs, with bibs, the now requisite chip-timing, sponsor tents, the $99 DJ, and so on. Roxbury, only about 40 minutes away in Litchfield, is home to the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.roxburyraces.net\">Roxbury Road Race series<\/A>, a long-standing season of 40 or so road races a year, put on by volunteers on routes all around the town. I happened upon the Bill Burley Mid-Summer Championship today, a five mile race (for $5 on the honor system) run by about 45 people. Instead of numbers and chips, you grabbed a numbered tongue depressor at the end of the race and wrote down your name and number in a log, with the times to be added by the timer later. It was a scenic race, put on by a friendly and devoted group, and I had a good time. I was impressed by the ambitious schedule, for such a small town, and wondered why this sort of thing doesn&#8217;t happen elsewhere.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>Bill Burley Mid-Summer Championship<\/B> | 5M | 7\/16\/16 | 40:10 | 26\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the races I&#8217;ve run have been fairly official affairs, with bibs, the now requisite chip-timing, sponsor tents, the $99 DJ, and so on. Roxbury, only about 40 minutes away in Litchfield, is home to the Roxbury Road Race series, a long-standing season of 40 or so road races a year, put on by [&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-4082","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\/4082","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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}