{"id":4387,"date":"2018-02-18T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2018-06-09T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T20:46:10","slug":"169_towns_63_litchfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2018\/02\/18\/169_towns_63_litchfield.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #63: Litchfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4699\/40415898552_66de588321.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"169 Towns #63: Litchfield\"><\/p>\n<p>It had been two months to the day since I&#8217;d run a race, and while a 5 miler wasn&#8217;t perhaps the best way to come back from some time off, it fit into the schedule. My time off had been due a combination of the busy holiday season and weather-related lack of races, and also because I&#8217;d pulled something in my left hip while pushing too hard after a week off over Christmas in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>I felt well enough to get back into things, and as always, today&#8217;s race was the one on the calendar that took place in a town I hadn&#8217;t run in before, that was early enough in the day to not be too disruptive, and close enough that I wouldn&#8217;t be gone all morning. The race was well organized and an obviously popular annual event. I tried to pace myself, but having been out of it for a few months, combined with my general inability to pace myself on races over 5K, I flagged near the end, but still felt like I put in a decent time. It was a little chilly, but could have been worse. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>Sweetheart Run<\/B> | 5M | 2\/17\/18 | 41:38 | 63\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been two months to the day since I&#8217;d run a race, and while a 5 miler wasn&#8217;t perhaps the best way to come back from some time off, it fit into the schedule. My time off had been due a combination of the busy holiday season and weather-related lack of races, and also [&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-4387","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\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}