{"id":4797,"date":"2023-03-18T20:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2024-03-24T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:59:01","slug":"169_towns_107_east_lyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2023\/03\/18\/169_towns_107_east_lyme.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #107: East Lyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53146748759_1b7bdc3e38.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#107 East Lyme: O&#x27;Niantic 5K\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another busy end to the year meant that it&#8217;s been four months since I&#8217;ve had a chance to run a race. Niantic is not technically a town, so the race was officially in East Lyme, and it was the biggest I&#8217;ve run in many years, with more than 800 entrants on this chilly, breezy day on the water. I&#8217;m a big fan of the \u201cregister online until minutes before and we\u2019ll assign you a random bib when you\u2019re actually there&#8221; approach, which this race took. I was feeling pretty out of shape, and am hoping that this race will kickstart the spring\/summer running season. I parked across from the downtown location of the Book Barn, and walked past the sad Niantic Cinema, with Chaplin looking dolefully down at us.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 800 runners, there was a constant stream of people, so it wasn&#8217;t one of those races where you mark someone and try to pass them, or run with a group\u2014it was more a constant flow of people the entire time. The course was mostly flat, pretty windy, but I felt like I pushed it about as well as I could the whole race, and came in in under 25:00, which I was happy to take.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><b>O&#8217;Niantic<\/b> | 5K  | 3\/18\/23 | 24:49 | 107\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another busy end to the year meant that it&#8217;s been four months since I&#8217;ve had a chance to run a race. Niantic is not technically a town, so the race was officially in East Lyme, and it was the biggest I&#8217;ve run in many years, with more than 800 entrants on this chilly, breezy day [&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-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","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=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}