{"id":4392,"date":"2018-05-21T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2018-06-09T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T20:42:34","slug":"169_towns_66_stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2018\/05\/21\/169_towns_66_stafford.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #66: Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/949\/41338899445_297fd019a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"169 Towns #66: Stafford\"><\/p>\n<p>It had been awhile since I&#8217;d had a chance to do a trail race, and with perfect weather\u2014cool with a nice mist in the air\u2014this was a great opportunity to get back into it. With all of the announcements about the markings on the course, I was worred this might be another <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/09\/10\/169_towns_53_monroe.html\">poorly marked fiasco<\/A>, but it turns out they really <I>did<\/I> know what they were doing, and it was very well marked. Lots of single-track, some dirt roads, and even a hand-over-hand ascent up a sand hill, made for an interesting race, and it was a fun day. There&#8217;s something special about the combination of mental and physical test you&#8217;re put through in a trail race. The tasty chili at the end was a plus, too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><B>Soapstone Mountain Race 6K Sampler<\/B> | 6K | 5\/20\/18 | 34:59 | 66\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been awhile since I&#8217;d had a chance to do a trail race, and with perfect weather\u2014cool with a nice mist in the air\u2014this was a great opportunity to get back into it. With all of the announcements about the markings on the course, I was worred this might be another poorly marked fiasco, [&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-4392","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\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/4418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}