{"id":4937,"date":"2024-08-24T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:20:19","slug":"169_towns_128_north_stonington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/08\/24\/169_towns_128_north_stonington.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #128: North Stonington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53945393838_1a7e2cd4f3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#128: North Stonington, Run the Village 5K, 8\/24\/24\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A classic small town race, this was both a benefit for a nonprofit doing work in Zambia as well as a race in memory of a local runner and VW Beetle mechanic. The bibs were reused from other races (this was not the John &#038; Jessie Kelley Road Race), old race t-shirts were given away, and the whole event had a great feel. It felt about as far away as one could be and still be in Connecticut, and of course, my results were the same as usual, ~25 mins. and fourth in the age group. Will 50-59 bring a change one way or the other? We&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\"><b>Run the Village<\/b> | 5K  | 8\/24\/24 | 25:36 | 128\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic small town race, this was both a benefit for a nonprofit doing work in Zambia as well as a race in memory of a local runner and VW Beetle mechanic. The bibs were reused from other races (this was not the John &#038; Jessie Kelley Road Race), old race t-shirts were given away, [&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-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}