{"id":4179,"date":"2017-06-11T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2017-08-31T05:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:53:47","slug":"169_towns_45_new_canaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/06\/11\/169_towns_45_new_canaan.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #45: New Canaan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4243\/35100664592_e99b0337df.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#45 New Canaan: Tri State MMRF 5K\"><\/p>\n<p>169 towns, 169 different styles and sizes&#8230; This race had the organizational footprint of a small marathon. Uniformed staff directing traffic in the parking area, paperless registration, with eight staffers and laptops for race day registration (credit cards accepted), separate tents for each fundraising team, a giant breakfast area, a <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mmrf\/34474346153\/in\/album-72157684912762666\/\">person in a Vineyard Vines whale costume<\/A>, and if all that wasn&#8217;t enough, a member of the 1986 World Series-winning Mets for you to meet before the race.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to be mostly along trails, but that&#8217;s what it turned out to be, a fun and varied course through the woods around the school. I felt pretty good, and turned in a decent time for a trail race.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>MMRF Tri State 5K Run\/Walk<\/B> | 5K | 6\/11\/17 | 23:39 | 45\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>169 towns, 169 different styles and sizes&#8230; This race had the organizational footprint of a small marathon. Uniformed staff directing traffic in the parking area, paperless registration, with eight staffers and laptops for race day registration (credit cards accepted), separate tents for each fundraising team, a giant breakfast area, a person in a Vineyard Vines [&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-4179","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\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4265,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}