{"id":4125,"date":"2016-11-25T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T02:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2017-06-10T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T01:22:59","slug":"169_towns_36_manchester_road_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2016\/11\/25\/169_towns_36_manchester_road_race.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #36: Manchester Road Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"#36<\/p>\n

I’ve been wanting to run the Manchester Road Race since we moved to Connecticut, after hearing about giant size and its long history<\/A>. Thanksgiving Day can be a tough race to schedule, but I finally got the chance this year, in the race’s 80th running. It was a really chilly morning, and I was happy to have been able to be seeded, thanks to a result from an earlier 5K that qualified me for the third or fourth group from the front. In a race with 11,000 participants, it definitely made a difference. <\/p>\n

After its size, the next most surprising thing was the number of people, drinking beer, standing along the course, the entire way. So cold, so much beer. There were a few bands, including a nice trombone ensemble, who kept us going, as well. It was quite an experience, and a really well run, nicely organized race. Not sure I need to do it again, but it was a good time.<\/p>\n

Manchester Road Race<\/B> | 4.748M | 11\/24\/16 | 34:50 | 36\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to run the Manchester Road Race since we moved to Connecticut, after hearing about giant size and its long history. Thanksgiving Day can be a tough race to schedule, but I finally got the chance this year, in the race’s 80th running. It was a really chilly morning, and I was happy […]<\/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-4125","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\/4125","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=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4163,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}