{"id":4121,"date":"2017-03-13T21:39:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T01:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2018-06-09T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T20:52:46","slug":"169_towns_38_watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/03\/13\/169_towns_38_watertown.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #38: Watertown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3682\/32585275803_7bcd1f98ea.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#38 Watertown: Shamrock Shuffle\"> <\/p>\n<p>After a year of races every month, a combination of weather, travel, sickness, and general lack of free time conspired to keep me off the race course for a few months at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, so I was happy to get back into it in March for this St. Patrick&#8217;s Day-themed race, with plenty of people in costume, in Watertown (though it actually started in Oakville).<\/p>\n<p>After a pretty mild winter, this seemed like it might be the first race of spring. Instead, after a light snow the day before, temperatures dropped to about 15\u00b0F, and I geared up for one of the colder races I&#8217;d ever run.? Watertown is another one of those Naugatuck Valley towns, one with an exit that I&#8217;d always noted but never taken. There are so many towns like this: railroad tracks, steep downtown streets, a mill in the process of being redeveloped.?<\/p>\n<p>The race was 3.5 miles, and that extra .4, when added to the three months without racing, really added up. It was hilly and tough, and I felt slow in general, but it was good to get back to racing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>Shamrock Shuffle<\/B> | 3.5M | 3\/11\/17 | 28:06 | 38\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of races every month, a combination of weather, travel, sickness, and general lack of free time conspired to keep me off the race course for a few months at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, so I was happy to get back into it in March for [&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-4121","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\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}