{"id":378,"date":"2010-07-25T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2013-08-17T09:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:20:48","slug":"san-francisco-half-marathon-take-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/san-francisco-half-marathon-take-3","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Half Marathon &#8211; Take 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380\" title=\"logo\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/logo.jpg\" width=\"113\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/san-francisco-half-marathon-take-2\" target=\"_self\">last year&#8217;s San Francisco Half Marathon<\/a> race report thinking that maybe I would run the full marathon this year but with the push to focus on speed, I came back this year to run the half a third time.<\/div>\n<p>Like last year, I made it early and fresh. I got into my wave on time though a bit late so I was at the back going through the line more than 3 minutes after the first runners in the wave and 5 minutes after the &#8220;elite&#8221; runners!<\/p>\n<p>I felt very strong for the whole race passing a lot of runners along the way. Though, starting 5 minutes behind the fastest runners means that I did not see that many people running at my pace except for the last mile. That last mile ended up being the hardest and I had to reach deep into my reserves to stay on pace.<\/p>\n<p>At the end, I finished 70th in 1:33:43. That is 5 minutes faster than last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-381\" alt=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1-1024x537.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1-1024x537.png 1024w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1-300x157.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-1.png 1155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on my race results this year so far, I decided to give another shot at qualifying for Boston and registered to run the Sacramento marathon for the third year in a row. But first, there is the San Jose half marathon in October with the 90 minute mark in sight. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished last year&#8217;s San Francisco Half Marathon race report thinking that maybe I would run the full marathon this year but with the push to focus on speed, I came back this year to run the half a third &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/san-francisco-half-marathon-take-3\">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\/378"}],"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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}