{"id":4094,"date":"2016-10-02T19:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2016-10-29T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T02:23:06","slug":"169_towns_30_waterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/10\/02\/169_towns_30_waterbury.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #30: Waterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5178\/30014211016_65a6168527.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#30 Waterbury: Bob Veillette 5K Road Race\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been to the movies in Waterbury, but that&#8217;s about it. It&#8217;s a big enough place that probably has a lot of races, so I was one of the only 169ers there today, for a small but very well-run race. Most races have a sort of connection between the size of the field and the level of organization: a race with a few hundred people is usually well marked, heavily staffed, and so on, while smaller races may not have chip timing, or even bibs. This one, however, was different: there were maybe 50 people running, tops, but they had food for a few hundred, trophies for every age group, and more police escorts and closed streets than any other race its size. It was a good run, though running under I-84 on-ramps and overpasses isn&#8217;t the most scenic of routes, it was fine. I made an effort to catch one guy near the end, passing him and holding him off in the final tenth of a mile. When we finished, I learned he was 16 years older than me, and quickly adjusted my sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>Bob Veillette 5K Road Race<\/B> | 5K | 10\/1\/16 | 21:54 | 30\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been to the movies in Waterbury, but that&#8217;s about it. It&#8217;s a big enough place that probably has a lot of races, so I was one of the only 169ers there today, for a small but very well-run race. Most races have a sort of connection between the size of the field and the [&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-4094","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\/4094","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=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}