{"id":4961,"date":"2024-10-06T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:16:51","slug":"169_towns_133_southington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/10\/06\/169_towns_133_southington.html","title":{"rendered":"169 Towns #133: Southington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54048298000_dccef8203f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"#133 Southington: Apple Harvest Road Races 5K\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There couldn\u2019t be a bigger contrast with yesterday\u2019s race. This one was massive, with eight different races going on today. There were food trucks everywhere, all downtown traffic was completely blocked off, and the field was nearly 800 strong. The race had pacers, even for the 5K, and a finishing chute that wouldn&#8217;t have been out of place at a major city marathon, with almost Manchester Road Race-like levels of organization. This was one of the last towns within a half hour of home, and though I&#8217;m not as fast as I used to be, it still felt like I pushed it and came in&#8230;maybe the top 15%?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ccc; padding: 6px\"><b>Apple Harvest Road Races<\/b> | 5K | 9\/15\/24 | 25:31 | 133\/169<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There couldn\u2019t be a bigger contrast with yesterday\u2019s race. This one was massive, with eight different races going on today. There were food trucks everywhere, all downtown traffic was completely blocked off, and the field was nearly 800 strong. The race had pacers, even for the 5K, and a finishing chute that wouldn&#8217;t have been [&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-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}