{"id":1320,"date":"2014-08-24T21:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2014-09-24T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T04:48:05","slug":"santa-rosa-marathon-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/santa-rosa-marathon-2014","title":{"rendered":"Santa Rosa Marathon 2014 (PR &#038; BQ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After running a <a title=\"Napa Valley Marathon 2014 (PR)\" href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/napa-valley-marathon-2014\">marathon PR in Napa Valley in March<\/a> and <a title=\"Santa Cruz Half Marathon 2014 (PR)\" href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/santa-cruz-half-marathon-2014-pr\">half marathon PR in Santa Cruz in April<\/a>, I have not been resting on my laurels and I have been training very hard in the last few months in the hope of breaking the 3:10 mark (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baa.org\/races\/boston-marathon\/participant-information\/qualifying\/qualifying-standards.aspx\">a Boston Qualifier, a.k.a. BQ for me<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1321\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014-1024x196.png\" alt=\"training_may_august_2014\" width=\"584\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014-1024x196.png 1024w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014-300x57.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014-500x95.png 500w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/training_may_august_2014.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Santa Rosa marathon is very well organized. Bib pickup was a breeze and the technical t-shirt is great. The course is nice and flat with a beautiful stretch alongside the Santa Rosa Creek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_course.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1323\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_course.png\" alt=\"santa_rosa_2014_course\" width=\"524\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_course.png 524w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_course-300x219.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_course-409x300.png 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Sunday started a bit early at 3AM as I could not sleep anymore so I was awake when the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2014_South_Napa_earthquake\">6.0 earthquake hit nearby South Napa<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and got to experience it all! Still, It had no to little impact on us or the race. Some runners mentioned they lost power in neighboring cities but I guess we got lucky and had no such issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_results.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1322\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_results.png\" alt=\"santa_rosa_2014_results\" width=\"584\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_results.png 746w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_results-300x279.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/santa_rosa_2014_results-321x300.png 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather at 6AM when we started the race was perfect for running and stayed this way for my whole run. I had a good race as I completed the marathon finishing 62nd in a new PR of 3:07:28.<\/p>\n<p>This is also a BQ by 2 minutes and 32 seconds and should allow me to run the mythical Boston Marathon in 2015. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After running a marathon PR in Napa Valley in March and half marathon PR in Santa Cruz in April, I have not been resting on my laurels and I have been training very hard in the last few months in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/08\/24\/santa-rosa-marathon-2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}