{"id":4090,"date":"2022-10-23T21:13:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2022-10-23T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:18:18","slug":"number-four-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Number four in the books"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">October 22, Saturday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?resize=604%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plus70runner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23-16.34.27.jpg?w=1812&amp;ssl=1 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On another strikingly beautiful autumn Saturday I completed 5K number four in the six part fall Shore AC cross country series. The Thompson Park course in Lincroft was another that lures you in with a comfortable mile one and then piles on hills in mile two and three.\u00a0 Checking previous Thompson Park runs, I discovered that I am adding about 30 seconds each year to my total time.\u00a0 I guess each year takes a toll.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>But there was good stuff too. I completed the first mile in 8:30. I haven&#8217;t done that in a while. For the first mile and a half I had that wonderful feeling that I was actually racing. The hills in the middle, both short and long inclines, took the measure of my legs. But in the final 1200m I was able to attack the hills with some intensity. Plus I did maintain my form and had a strong finish in 29:32.\u00a0 I left Thompson Park with a smile and the realization of how fortunate I am to be able to do this.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today I spent an hour alone at the clubhouse pool stretching in the hot tub, running, swimming and luxuriating.<\/p>\r\n<p>Happy with stats!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 22, Saturday &nbsp; On another strikingly beautiful autumn Saturday I completed 5K number four in the six part fall Shore AC cross country series. The Thompson Park course in Lincroft was another that lures you in with a comfortable mile one and then piles on hills in mile two and three.\u00a0 Checking previous Thompson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/?p=4090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Number four in the books<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lqKh-13Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}