{"id":4740,"date":"2023-12-02T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T00:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:07:20","slug":"169_towns_122_berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2023\/12\/02\/169_towns_122_berlin.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #122: Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53375092639_2fc8a59528.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#122 Berlin: Tinsel Fun Run\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I always thought the minimum to count for a town race was a 5K, but apparently that&#8217;s not the case. This two mile race was a nice change of pace. While the girls headed off for their CMEA auditions, I headed to Berlin for this race. Lots of runners in costumes, and Christmas music was blaring, but with no snow and 47\u00ba, it didn&#8217;t feel that wintry. I pushed myself harder than usual, with the short distance, and finished in just over 15 minutes. I thought I wasn&#8217;t going to place again, as I saw who&#8217;d come in before me, but thanks to the weirdest age groups I&#8217;ve ever seen, I managed to take home a first place trophy for the men&#8217;s 42-49 group. Of course!  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ccc; padding: 6px\"><b>Tinsel Fun Run<\/b> | 2M | 1\/28\/24 | 15:01 | 122\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always thought the minimum to count for a town race was a 5K, but apparently that&#8217;s not the case. This two mile race was a nice change of pace. While the girls headed off for their CMEA auditions, I headed to Berlin for this race. Lots of runners in costumes, and Christmas music was [&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-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}