{"id":918,"date":"2013-05-05T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-05-06T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:02:23","slug":"pleasanton-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/pleasanton-half-marathon","title":{"rendered":"Pleasanton Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pleasanton_half_marathon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-919\" alt=\"pleasanton_half_marathon\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pleasanton_half_marathon.png\" width=\"215\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I ran my second half marathon of the year&#8230; in Pleasanton. Right, I was somewhat surprised as well to hear about it but I have to say it was very well organized.<\/p>\n<p>The course is very flat and we had perfect running weather one more time. The race started promptly at 7AM with around 700 runners. I started a bit faster than <a title=\"Santa Cruz Half Marathon 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/santa-cruz-half-marathon-2013\">4 weeks ago in Santa Cruz<\/a> running 7:50\/mile and had to keep looking at the watch to not run too fast and shatter my race plan. After 10 miles, I used a similar strategy than in Santa Cruz and accelerated to around 7:30\/mile catching up with a bunch of runners to finish in 1:40:14 or 7:41\/mile average.<\/p>\n<p>The post-race party was very well organized. The food was tasty including warm burritos! The medal and technical shirt are very nice. I even managed to get in line at the chiropractor&#8217;s tent that gave me an awesome dynamic stretch. My legs definitely appreciated the special treatment after pounding the pavement for 13.1 miles.<\/p>\n<p>My hat off to the organizers and volunteers. I hope to run the race for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I ran my second half marathon of the year&#8230; in Pleasanton. Right, I was somewhat surprised as well to hear about it but I have to say it was very well organized. The course is very flat and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/pleasanton-half-marathon\">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\/918"}],"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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}