{"id":4805,"date":"2023-08-27T20:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2024-03-24T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:32:42","slug":"169_towns_111_new_milford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2023\/08\/27\/169_towns_111_new_milford.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #111: New Milford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53146738039_a396ca5f78.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#111 New Milford: Sgt Scoulars Overdose Awareness and Recovery 5K\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another long break with two trips to the U.K., the festival in Bologna, then Canada and Alaska, it&#8217;s been three months since I ran. The race was free, but also featured a first: custom-printed bibs with the name of the race on them&#8230;but no timing! I can&#8217;t recall the last race that didn&#8217;t use one of the many local and regional timing companies to track the racers. Even more unorthodox was the fact that the organizers held a raffle before the start, meaning racers about to run a 5K were left quizzically holding gift baskets.<\/p>\n<p>The course was a little odd: not a word of it was spoken in advance, maybe because it was a pretty boring out and back, but there were also other strange elements: the water stop was really oddly placed, off the course, and featured hundreds of cups that weren&#8217;t going to be used. After 110+ races you start noticing things like this, I guess&#8230; Anyway, I never caught all the people I thought I would, and am just not as fast as I used to be, but knocked off another town. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ccc; padding: 6px\"><b>Sgt Scoular&#8217;s Overdose Awareness and Recovery Run<\/b> | 5k | 8\/27\/23 | 24:41 | 111\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another long break with two trips to the U.K., the festival in Bologna, then Canada and Alaska, it&#8217;s been three months since I ran. The race was free, but also featured a first: custom-printed bibs with the name of the race on them&#8230;but no timing! I can&#8217;t recall the last race that didn&#8217;t use one [&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-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","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=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}