{"id":4241,"date":"2023-10-08T22:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T02:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2023-10-08T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T02:53:39","slug":"2nd-place-70-division-team-usatf-national-cross-country-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/?p=4241","title":{"rendered":"2nd place +70 division team @ USATF NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY RACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, October 8th<\/p>\n

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Back in New Jersey after a whirlwind trip to Boca Raton to run in the USA Track and Field national cross country championships\u00a0 on Saturday. I left Friday morning, ran Saturday morning and returned by Saturday night late. I emerged from the race in\u00a0 pretty good shape after running an acceptable but less than outstanding 31 minute 5K. It was, however, good enough to help our 70+\u00a0 team from the Shore Athletic Club finish second in the overall Team Championship.\u00a0 I learned that there are some serious Masters 5K runners at these meets.\u00a0 I actually finished 4th out of eight 80 year old guys.\u00a0 On the positive side the time was a minute and a half faster than my 5K last Saturday. It was a picturesque, grass covered course and the temperature was about 90\u00b0 at the gun. My lack of aerobic fitness was apparent as my mile times went from 9 minutes to 10 minutes to 11 minutes along the course of the race. My recovery was much more difficult and much longer then usual, I would guess as a result of the heat. It was an interesting experience and a lot of fun to be part of a team. But the toll that the travel takes on my body makes me believe I will be running races closer to home for the foreseeable future. But it is also nice to have a USA TF Masters National Championship medal!<\/p>\n

STATS are steady and positive.\u00a0 I am feeling a little soreness in my achilles tendon right foot today probably as a result of wearing spikes for 5K for the first time. I will have to watch that carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, October 8th Back in New Jersey after a whirlwind trip to Boca Raton to run in the USA Track and Field national cross country championships\u00a0 on Saturday. I left Friday morning, ran Saturday morning and returned by Saturday night late. I emerged from the race in\u00a0 pretty good shape after running an acceptable but … Continue reading 2nd place +70 division team @ USATF NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY RACE<\/span> →<\/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-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lqKh-16p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","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=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plus70runner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}