{"id":4855,"date":"2024-03-23T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2024-03-24T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:50:49","slug":"169_towns_125_westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/03\/23\/169_towns_125_westbrook.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #125: Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53606483375_43d1b45b18.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#125 Westbrook: Daisy Dash 5K\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;elusive&#8221; status of Westbrook was enough to overcome the fact that the forecast predicted solid rain all day (to the point where the race website posted a pop-up indicating that the race would go on, rain or shine). The town is one of the closer targets left on my list, now numbering less than 50, and I set out in the downpour, up 95 to Westbrook, where I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been before. Despite the rain requiring some double-time wipers and making visibility on the drive pretty poor, it calmed down by the time I arrived, and the race itself wasn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>Again, 25:00 seems to be the new 23:00, which I keep trying to touch again, but it wasn&#8217;t to be, especially with a back muscle that seized up at mile one and the stiff breeze along Long Island Sound on the way back. I managed a decent finish, in a race that was won by a 17 year-old who finished a full two minutes ahead of the next finisher. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ccc; padding: 6px\"><b>Daisy Dash<\/b> | 5K | 3\/23\/24 | 25:20 | 125\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;elusive&#8221; status of Westbrook was enough to overcome the fact that the forecast predicted solid rain all day (to the point where the race website posted a pop-up indicating that the race would go on, rain or shine). The town is one of the closer targets left on my list, now numbering less than [&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-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","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=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}