{"id":162,"date":"2009-04-20T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:57:08","slug":"marathon-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/thoughts\/marathon-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Monday 461.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright so some people might be able to do the Boston Marathon in close to three hours. \u00a0But they do it on paved roads, with hoards of cheering fans, people handing them orange slices and cups of water, and in funny little shorts. \u00a0They do not do it on uneven rocky terrain, with 25 pound packs, with rain gear, nor carrying 2.5 liters of water. \u00a0My official start time was 7:23AM and I made it into Damascus at 5:41PM, for a total of 10 hours 18 minutes. \u00a0Not bad considering it was my longest day by 7 miles and I usually only two 2mph, I think I came in fifth. \u00a0My legs hurt real bad, and I am tired. \u00a0The funny thing about the trail is that you&#8217;re never really racing anyone but yourself. \u00a0Like playing Go. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0123.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-172\" title=\"img_0120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0120-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_0120\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0120-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0120-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0120.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-173\" title=\"img_0123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0123-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_0123\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0123-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0123-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/img_0123.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found Zoltan and Fireball in town today, which was nice; we watched the C&#8217;s barely beat the Bulls. \u00a0I heard Rachiopod is around too, but I haven&#8217;t found her.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the gold star goes to Mom for being the first person to make it out to see me. \u00a0Being retired probably has something to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright so some people might be able to do the Boston Marathon in close to three hours. \u00a0But they do it on paved roads, with hoards of cheering fans, people handing them orange slices and cups of water, and in funny little shorts. \u00a0They do not do it on uneven rocky terrain, with 25 pound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}