{"id":428,"date":"2006-12-09T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T00:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/marathon_time_again.html"},"modified":"2006-12-09T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T00:20:49","slug":"marathon_time_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/marathon_time_again.html","title":{"rendered":"Marathon time again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sfm.png\"This week, I finally pulled the trigger and decided to run another marathon. My first<\/A>, in Chicago back in the fall of 2004, was a great experience, and I think I’d like to try it again. I’m not sure I can really improve my time, as I’ve chosen hilly San Francisco as my next course, but I’ll give it a shot. The race is at the end of July, which gives me plenty of time to prepare, and I’m trying a different training regimen this time around. <\/p>\n

I’ll be using Hal Higdon’s Intermediate I<\/a> training schedule, which looks a bit tougher than what I did last time, but this time, the numbers don’t seem quite so intimidating. Every workout, in fact, every day, of the program, is described in detail on the website, so I think it’ll be a useful tool to get me in shape. Strangely enough, Higdon is also the author of Leopold & Loeb: The Crime of the Century<\/I><\/a>, listed for sale among his dozens of other books with titles like Marathon – The Ultimate Training Guide<\/I>, Boston – A Century of Running<\/I>, and RUN FAST–How to Beat Your Best Time<\/I>. Multi-talented guy, I guess. <\/p>\n

Aimee and I ran the Santa Monica Venice Christmas Run, a 5k along the water this morning, which was a lot of fun, but not particularly Christmas-y, with pleasant temps in the 70s, definitely t-shirt and shorts weather. I did a little better than I thought, but I’m still looking to challenge my personal best<\/A> at the distance, which I did while training for the marathon the last time around. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I finally pulled the trigger and decided to run another marathon. My first, in Chicago back in the fall of 2004, was a great experience, and I think I’d like to try it again. I’m not sure I can really improve my time, as I’ve chosen hilly San Francisco as my next course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}