{"id":11747,"date":"2010-03-24T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/5-k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:24:07","slug":"5-k-or-marathon-which-is-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/5-k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"5 K or Marathon: Which is Harder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01310fd7c1df970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5K\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01310fd7c1df970c image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01310fd7c1df970c-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"5K\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Which is harder, to run 3.1 miles or 26.2?&#0160; They are equally hard for the runner who runs right.&#0160; The agony and the ecstasy at the end of a race run right is the same whether induced by 42.2 km of LSD or 5 km of POT.&#0160; Above, I am approaching the final stretch of a 5 K trail race (2nd annual CAAFA 5K Race Against Violence, Prospector Park, Apache Junction, Arizona). &#0160;The date is wrong: should be 3\/21\/2010.&#0160; I finished in 45th place in a mixed field of 113, and 28th among 44 men.&#0160; Time: 33:38.8 for a pace of 10:49.8.&#0160; That&#39;s nothing to crow about, but then I&#39;m 60 as is the gal right behind me.&#0160; Twenty years ago I could cover this distance at a 7:45 min\/mile pace.&#0160; There were five 60+ males and I finished first among them.&#0160; Not a strong field!&#0160; But a beautiful cool crisp morning and a great course and a great run.&#0160; I could have pushed harder!&#0160; Could have and should have.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">LSD: long slow distance.&#0160; POT: plenty of tempo.&#0160; Both terms borrowed from Joe Henderson.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is harder, to run 3.1 miles or 26.2?&#0160; They are equally hard for the runner who runs right.&#0160; The agony and the ecstasy at the end of a race run right is the same whether induced by 42.2 km of LSD or 5 km of POT.&#0160; Above, I am approaching the final stretch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/24\/5-k-or-marathon-which-is-harder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5 K or Marathon: Which is Harder?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,133,493,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-photographs","category-running","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}