{"id":774,"date":"2008-06-02T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&#038;articleId=845&#038;blogId=1"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:10:31","slug":"my-fourth-marathon-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2008\/06\/02\/my-fourth-marathon-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fourth Marathon Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:<br \/>It&#039;s Monday; I slept around 8:30PM last night and got up around 7:30AM this morning. Legs still sore, upper back still sore but my spirits were high because I had a french dip sarnie with chips this morning! LMAO. I was really hungry; what can I say. It didn&#039;t last, though as after brekkers, I checked the computer for my official marathon results. As you can see, I finished a dismal 7 hours, 1 minute and 6 seconds. Pah.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to have a permanent section for &quot;What Went Wrong&quot; &#8212; here are my thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>I didn&#039;t train;<\/em> How bad was it this year? Well, if you look back at my running logs, you&#039;ll only find 5 entries prior to this San Diego marathon. That&#039;s 5 days that I actually went outside to run some sort of distance. That&#039;s quite pitiful and sad.<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s pretty much it. I didn&#039;t train. I didn&#039;t take my preparation seriously this year and rightly suffered for it. LOL during the run, I was texting people (and tweeting) that I needed a slap across my face if I decide to run a marathon *without training*.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see my pathetic finish in video, check it out:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/video.nbcsandiego.com\/player\/?id=257881\">http:\/\/video.nbcsandiego.com\/player\/?id=257881<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the advert plays, and after the video fully loads, forward until you see the marathon clock count up to 7:13:28, you&#039;ll see me, in my bright &quot;celery&quot; shirt, white hat, and black shorts, pitifully crossing the line and then having enough strength to lift my arms; thanking the Lord that it wasn&#039;t a DNF (<em>&quot;Did Not Finish&quot;<\/em>) LOL!<\/p>\n<p \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:It&#039;s Monday; I slept around 8:30PM last night and got up around 7:30AM this morning. Legs still sore, upper back still sore but my spirits were high because I had a french dip sarnie with chips this morning! LMAO. I was really hungry; what can I say. It didn&#039;t last, though as after brekkers, I  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2008\/06\/02\/my-fourth-marathon-experience\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[446,224,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}