{"id":4695,"date":"2021-06-12T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T13:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2024-03-21T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:27:05","slug":"169_towns_92_groton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2021\/06\/12\/169_towns_92_groton.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #92: Groton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51245721445_bb3c9d8830.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#92 Groton: Tour de Noank\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not sure about the Groton vs. Groton (Town of) distinction, but as the summer race season ramps up, I took a look at the calendar yesterday to see what I might be able to do the next day.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one race was scheduled for a town I&#8217;d yet to run in and which had same-day registration, so Tour de Noank in the Town of Groton it was. It might have helped to look at the weather forecast or bring a towel, as I keep meaning to, as it was pouring down rain most of the drive and was still raining when I arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The race was a pleasant, flat tour through the streets of the village, except for one big hill at mile 2, and happily, the rain let up for the race. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ccc; padding: 6px\"><b>Tour de Noank<\/b> | 5K | 6\/12\/21 | 24:33 | 92\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still not sure about the Groton vs. Groton (Town of) distinction, but as the summer race season ramps up, I took a look at the calendar yesterday to see what I might be able to do the next day. There was only one race was scheduled for a town I&#8217;d yet to run in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","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=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}